Summer is Coming !

Sunday 21st December is 2025 Winter Solstice. Now each day gets longer. Summer approaches. Sun Shine.  

(art by Cicely Mary Barker)

 

Krampus

Xmas Games with Krampus (art by John Brophy, 1914)

 

Northern winters have darkness -- NOT just joy & good cheer

 

Winter darkness of Krampus ...

 

Anti-Racism from Jenny Nyström

Swedish illustrator Jenny Nyström often painted gnomes, elves, and Swedish blonde children. 

But she did other work as well.

Here's Tom and Evangeline "Eva" St. Clare in 1895 [Signed J.N. lower left]

 

Swedish artist Jenny Nyström

 

Christmas Greetings !

Art from Swedish illustrator Jenny Nyström (1854-1946)

note the Christmas goat & julros or Christmas rose, Helleborus niger  

How Devils Hide

 

The Key Weakness of Modern America is that slavery is taught as the history of Black people rather than as the cruel and dark narrative of our wealthiest & most powerful white folk.

-- Brugen

  

Dr. King, Nobel Laureate, Remembered

December 10th every year is Nobel Day. 

Let's Remember Peace Prize Laureate Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. His birthday is a US National Holiday now, but being de-emphasized by racist Americans, including top administration officials.

 

Is this Foreign Devil America's Kingmaker?

Could Kamala Harris & Biden have forced a Gaza ceasefire before the US election? Even a short break might have helped her election, and brought-in food for non-combatants. Civilian mass starvation is cruel & improper.

4B Soft Power

South Korea suffers from misogyny, bad treatment of women. Publicly festering many years now, the complex situation got highly recognized with the creepy murder (17 May 2016) of a young woman in Gangnam (강남역 화장실 살인사건 추모 운동) and later via the 4B movement 4비운동 asserting female abilities   4B:

비연애  Biyeonae = No dating men                   ❤️

비섹스  Bisekseu = No hetero sex

비혼  Bihon = No hetero marriage

비출산  Bichulsan = No childbirth

US Women have now reportedly begun wielding 4B measures to limit bullying & chauvinism, similar to ancient Lysistrata of Greece. Fight!   Good Luck!                 

 [acc. to Jiji Press]: ４Ｂ運動は、男性とのデート、性行為、結婚を拒否し、子供も産まないという「四つの誓い」で、数年前に韓国で始まったとされる。Ｂは韓国語の「非（ビ）」をアルファベット表記した頭文字だ。

Soft power  for change!

 

 

 

Change of Focus

These blog posts have become too sporadic, as I've instead spent energies on social media posts such as on Facebook. It is also troubling to work carefully on political & policy commentary which has no discernible external effect.

Yet the process has an effect on me.

Nonetheless, I shall continue to strive to broaden my topics.