Birdie sings a funny song at a Nant House party, September 1847
Tag: 19th century
We are about to be subsumed by an idiocracy that only the patriarchy could have saved us from
A secret matriarchy running inside pre-industrial Europe.
One gets into Heaven by being good at it, and that means practice. How Shaker society was so opposite to ours, and in this most zen way!
There is an Emily in each of us. It is incompatible with this world, and thereby reminds us that we are not native to it.
The good old days were actually the bad old days, but because survival was fleeting, mindfulness was more necessary.
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Smashing ist eine sehr leidenschaftliche Freundschaft, meist zwischen zwei Frauen unterschiedlichen Alters.
Faced with high inflation and war, one might begin to consider situation-appropriate lifestyle changes. In terms of saving energy, there is much we can do. Our ancestors worked out all the heating accommodations we need.
Shunned by Victorian society at every turn, the residents of a cliff-top boarding house create a society of their own.