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Nellie Bly- Journalist undercover in an insane asylum

The trailblazing American journalist Nellie Bly began her record-breaking 72-day journey around the world on this day in 1889 — a trip which made her the first person to ever complete the fictional journey depicted in Jules Verne’s “Around the World in Eighty Days”! A minimalist traveler, the 24-year-old Pittsburgh native brought with her only the dress she was wearing, a sturdy overcoat, a wool cap, a few changes of underwear, and a small handbag with her toiletries and writing supplies. She started the 24,899-mile journey from a port near New York City and traveled by steamship to England. From there, she traveled by train across Europe and Asia, by ocean liner across the Pacific Ocean, and by train from San Francisco back to New York. In total, her journey lasted 72 days, six hours, eleven minutes, and fourteen seconds, setting a new world record for fastest circumnavigation.

Bly, one of the earliest muckraking journalists, was also famous for her undercover investigative reports on corruption and social injustices. The year before her famous journey, Bly took an undercover assignment for the New York World where she feigned insanity to get herself committed to the New York City Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island. Her work pioneered the realm of undercover journalism after she wrote an exposé on the horrific conditions and mistreatment of patients she found there. Bly’s series of articles led to a grand jury investigation and, subsequently, to improved care for the patients and increased funding for the care of people with mental illness.

Nellie Bly told the story of her historic journey in her book “Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings” at https://www.amightygirl.com/around-world-seventy-two

For an inspiring new picture book about her journey around the world, we highly recommend “Nellie vs. Elizabeth: Two Daredevil Journalists’ Breakneck Race around the World” for ages 6 to 9 at https://www.amightygirl.com/nellie-vs-elizabeth

For an excellent book for adult readers about Bly’s journey, we recommend “Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World” at https://www.amightygirl.com/eighty-days

For more books for kids about this pioneering journalist, check out the chapter book “She Persisted: Nellie Bly” for ages 6 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/she-persisted-nellie-bly) and “Who Was Nellie Bly?” for ages 8 to 12 (https://www.amightygirl.com/who-was-nellie-bly)

And, for toys and games to ignite your Mighty Girl’s interest in traveling the world, visit our “Geography Toys” section at http://amgrl.co/1T0VKeS

Burning Women

“These are burning times. And they call for Burning Women. Women embodied in their passion. Woman feeling in their bodies. Creative women..”

Burning Women arise.

Our time is now.

Our time has come.”

― Lucy H. Pearce, Burning Woman

I know that I know that I know that the times we are in are the fires, and that yes – we are rising. I know it subjectively – the last three years have been me sorting through the ashes, and for the first time in awhile, things have begun to clear. And I know it collectively – there is more purpose, less uncertainty.

More energy. More clarity.

And while our purpose and path are something inherent to each of us individually, there is also the collective nature of the purpose and path of all women: To rise.

I created this in part inspired by Lucy A. Pearce’s seminal work, “Burning Woman” because it gives me much strength when times are especially hard to discern. I have always wanted to create a feminine Phoenix because it perfectly embodies us as women at so many stages of life. Life transformations of deaths and births, of loss and discovery. The transition from girl to Maiden. From Maiden to Mother, from Mother to crone. Where the old is literally done away with, and a new and different thing comes into place. Where we are reduced to ash in those liminal times wondering what the hell is happening, and feeling absolutely bereft – but then the discovering. This is especially daunting at the last stage, and what nobody tells you is how the veils lift – but that is for another work.

This work is to serve as a tangible reminder of the magic within you – wherever you are in your own life. It is a placeholder of hope in the symbology of what it is to not just survive, but to be rebirthed anew.

To fully own and acknowledge the fire within you.

To remind you to embrace your own burning time.

To see with eyes beyond your human eyes

And to remember that yes, again, you will rise

.“Burning Woman (Phoenix Rising)

Mixed Media

2022

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Water

“Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water.

And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home,

and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are down to your last two percent, but

nothing is infinite,

not even loss.

You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day

you are going to find yourself again.”

Finn Butler

Xuanwei Su

Healing of love ❤️

“The Old Irish Healer to the Soul”

It’s not your back that hurts, but the burden.

It’s not your eyes that hurt, but injustice.

It’s not your head that hurts, it’s your thoughts.

It’s not the throat, but what you don’t express or say with anger.

It’s not the stomach hurts, but what the soul does not digest.

It’s not the liver that hurts, it’s the anger.

It’s not your heart that hurts, but love.

And it is love itself that contains the most powerful medicine.

Bob Marley on Women

Thoughts for today

Bob Marley was once asked if there was a perfect woman. He replies :

Who cares about perfection?

Even the moon is not perfect, it is full of craters.

The sea is incredibly beautiful, but salty and dark in the depths.

The sky is always infinite, but often cloudy.

So, everything that is beautiful isn’t perfect, it’s special.

Therefore, every woman can be special to someone.

Stop being “perfect”, but try to be free and live, doing what you love, not wanting to impress others!

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Read Thoughts on Britney Spears’ Memoir, ‘The Woman in Me’

Before Britney Spears’ memoir, “The Woman in Me,” was released, some wondered why she wrote it. The answer is simple: She deserves to.
— Read on thestoryexchange.org/there-is-no-statute-of-limitations-on-womens-pain/

The late great actress Katherine Hepburn on Giving

Katharine Hepburn’s childhood, in her own words.

“Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus.

Finally, there was only one other family between us and the ticket counter. This family made a big impression on me.

There were eight children, all probably under the age of 12. The way they were dressed, you could tell they didn’t have a lot of money, but their clothes were neat and clean.

The children were well-behaved, all of them standing in line, two-by-two behind their parents, holding hands. They were excitedly jabbering about the clowns, animals, and all the acts they would be seeing that night. By their excitement you could sense they had never been to the circus before. It would be a highlight of their lives.

The father and mother were at the head of the pack standing proud as could be. The mother was holding her husband’s hand, looking up at him as if to say, “You’re my knight in shining armour.” He was smiling and enjoying seeing his family happy.

The ticket lady asked the man how many tickets he wanted? He proudly responded, “I’d like to buy eight children’s tickets and two adult tickets, so I can take my family to the circus.” The ticket lady stated the price.

The man’s wife let go of his hand, her head dropped, the man’s lip began to quiver. Then he leaned a little closer and asked, “How much did you say?” The ticket lady again stated the price.

The man didn’t have enough money. How was he supposed to turn and tell his eight kids that he didn’t have enough money to take them to the circus?

Seeing what was going on, my dad reached into his pocket, pulled out a $20 bill, and then dropped it on the ground. (We were not wealthy in any sense of the word!) My father bent down, picked up the $20 bill, tapped the man on the shoulder and said, “Excuse me, sir, this fell out of your pocket.”

The man understood what was going on. He wasn’t begging for a handout but certainly appreciated the help in a desperate, heartbreaking and embarrassing situation.

He looked straight into my dad’s eyes, took my dad’s hand in both of his, squeezed tightly onto the $20 bill, and with his lip quivering and a tear streaming down his cheek, he replied; “Thank you, thank you, sir. This really means a lot to me and my family.”

My father and I went back to our car and drove home. The $20 that my dad gave away is what we were going to buy our own tickets with.

Although we didn’t get to see the circus that night, we both felt a joy inside us that was far greater than seeing the circus could ever provide.

That day I learnt the value to Give.

The Giver is bigger than the Receiver. If you want to be large, larger than life, learn to Give. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

The importance of giving, blessing others can never be over emphasised because there’s always joy in giving. Learn to make someone happy by acts of giving.”

~ Katharine Hepburn

Babies – Wait to cut the cord

Kirill Rebjew ….

As a former doctor I’d like to tell you something..

In the “obstetrics – hospital” there is a silent and unofficial rule of immediate cutting of the umbilical cord. But you don’t have that obligation!

It happens like this because the newborn at the time of birth is in a double respiratory state. First, it gets oxygen and nutrients through the umbilical cord. His lungs are not fully activated yet, he gradually starts breathing air through his nose and then slowly activates his lungs. What do the “doctors” do? The umbilical cord is cut off immediately after birth, cutting off the flow of oxygen and nutrients. The child is crumbling, starts taking a deep breath and tries to activate the lungs: it hurts! Also the crib blood must get to the baby!

If the umbilical cord is cut off immediately, the baby will not have enough blood immediately after birth. However, the blood in the placenta contains the child’s natural immune spectrum. In other words, if the umbilical cord is immediately cut off, part of the child’s natural immunity is deliberately being denied.

Why ? A child that does not initially reach full immunity will likely have many health problems throughout his life. This in turn means that “meds” can now tell parents that their child needs shots, pills, mixtures, and surgery. The more children and unhealthy people, the more patient-patient “medicine”. Nothing personal, just business.

The umbilical cord should NOT be cut 1 HOUR AFTER BIRTH. The “doctors” don’t think about this. For all the fictional reasons they want this to end as soon as possible. Medical practice wants the umbilical cord and tendon to remain as cool as possible.

Now the question: why do drugs need a fresh bed and umbilical cord? Expensive medical and cosmetic preparations are made from their fabrics. This is one of the main reasons why medical practice does not want people to give birth at home in a comfortable and familiar atmosphere. If more and more people were doing it anyway, drugs would lose an important source of income. ”

“This article is aimed not only to educate pregnant women and fathers, but also cosmetic enthusiasts who, in their ignorance, in addition to any chemicals, apply their faces with these cosmetics.”

[Source: Kirill Repjew]

Comment ….

Helene Thibault

My daughter gave birth at Blainville birth center and the baby stayed with her for over an hour, still connected to the umbilical cord. When we cut it, the string was white and bloodless. Baby got everything he needed. I buried a bedding under a tree on my land to create a connection between child and Mother Earth.

Via Justyna Jeska