isolation, communities, and international womens day

1.  i am really excited about the fact that folks are interested in this lil blog dream.  i had kinda thought that no one be interested.  and people would be annoyed that i asked them in the first place.  and i put it out there because i had this dream and then another one and another one and it became obvious that the universe was not going  to let me get a good night sleep until i did.

2. i am hoping to have it up and basically running for international women’s day: march 8th.  but i may not reach that deadline.  there is alot going on in my world right now and i dont want to half-ass any of the projects i am working on.  including the whole being a mother-thing that i do.

3.  this morning i woke up with mary j blige’s version of ‘im going down’ running through my head…

heartbreaking

These are heartbreaking pictures of children who live in the Nuevo Laredo penitentiary.  I did not know that children were allowed to live with their parents under such conditions.  In some ways, I am just glad that the children can be with their mothers and fathers, on the other hand, I want to rail against a prison industrial system and a larger economic system that would lock mothers, fathers, and children away.