Oh JD, You Numbnut!

Who's the REAL April Fool?

International Transgender Day of Visibility

Shit has got real now and it will get much worse

if we make the mistake of throwing

the transgender community to the wolves.

BE AN ALLY!

And to lesbigay people who want to ban

trans people and trans issues from our movement --

SHAME ON YOU!

And to all haters, I say --

Everyone has the right to be and become

who they truly are, no matter when that process begins.

Trans youth are particularly vulnerable to anti-trans hate --

Trans people always have and always will exist

and will live their lives as best they can,

no matter what any law says.

SUPPORT TRANS RIGHTS!

The What in the Where?

But never send a man

to do a woman's job!

What's In YOUR Cupboards?

Surprisingly, I do NOT have any

Captain America / Winter Soldier

glasses or mugs --

But I DO still have my

plastic Yogi Bear mug

from when I was a pre-schooler!

I hope all the paint I ingested off the rim

wasn't toxic. Consumer safety regulations

were SO lax in the early 1960s.

Friday Face OFF -- Smiling Grandma

For this week's Friday Face OFF link party

of art featuring faces, hosted by Nicole of

DVArtist, Art, Food, Gardening blog . . .

Here's another portrait which I did

in my coloured pencils class.

This charming elderly lady is from the country

of Georgia in the Caucasus region of Eurasia.

Wrinkles are damn hard to do,

that's all I can say.

And I didn't even put all of hers in!

[Art and photo of art © Debra She Who Seeks, 2025]

An Important Month, At Least To Some Of Us

I'm not one of those people who hate recorders.

I LOVE THEM!

It's the only musical instrument I know how to play.

And yes, I learned it in school --

in Grade 7 when I was twelve years old.

We received weekly instruction for three months

from a young teacher who just happened

to know how to teach recorder.

She was stunned to learn that I didn't already know

how to read music, naively assuming that all kids

came from homes wealthy enough to afford

private music lessons. I did not.

Learning basic musical notation

and the recorder scale opened

a whole new world to me.

I've parlayed that short period of formal instruction

into a lifetime of playing recorders

for my own enjoyment,

not only the basic soprano recorder 

by also alto, tenor and bass recorders,

which I learned how to play on my own.

I never had the opportunity to play in an ensemble

until I was middle aged. Unfortunately, it revealed the limits of 

my musical education and proficiency, so I went back

to just playing for my own enjoyment.

That has always been enough for me.

These days, I can no longer play the recorder

due to my poor eyesight which prevents me

from being able to see the sheet music.

But who knows, perhaps once my cataracts are removed,

I will be able to play again. I hope so!

Recorders deserve more respect than they get.

Before the invention of the metal transverse flute,

recorders were a serious instrument in baroque and

other early music central to the European tradition.

Today, however, they are regarded as being only

a kid's plastic toy to torment everyone around them.

But hey, I still enjoy a good recorder meme

like anyone else! So here's a few to end on.