MOV Red Tent

05/27/2026

At first glance, Victor Marais-Milton’s L’intrigant (“The Plotter”) seems playful and almost comedic, but the longer I look at it, the more unsettling it becomes.

The scattered objects on the floor, especially the overturned knitting basket and the single red heel, make the scene feel less like harmless flirtation and more like the aftermath of a frantic struggle.

What I find especially disturbing is how the intruder is reduced to little more than a ring covered hand forcing its way into the room. It almost feels symbolic, as if wealth and social status are being used to bypass consent.

The woman pouring the water is the most ambiguous part of the painting. She appears to be smiling, but it is impossible to tell whether the act is playful, mocking, or done out of desperation to ward the intruder off. Even the water itself feels uncertain, whether it is harmless or boiling.

What makes the painting so effective to me is that it never fully commits to either comedy or menace. It constantly shifts between the two, which makes the entire scene feel psychologically uncomfortable in a way that lingers long after looking at it.

05/26/2026

Yes. Sometimes, the kindest thing we can do for our children is leave the abuse. I tried to stay for the kids, but realized my kids might become abusive themselves, or marry someone who was. I wanted better for them. And, sadly, the abusive parent might get some parenting time due to ignorance in the Family court system but spending even some time with you alone will teach them what healthy looks like. https://carolineabbott.com/2019/03/how-the-abuse-you-receive-affects-your-kids/

05/06/2026

04/19/2026

A year after this photo was taken, Kahlo would be severely injured in a bus accident, breaking her spine, collar bone, ribs, pelvis and fracturing her right leg in 11 places.

An iron handrail impaled her through her pelvis, piercing “the way a sword pierces a bull.” She spent 3 months in a full body cast before regaining the ability to walk again.

Before the accident, Frida was studying to become a physician. However, she decided to become an artist while she was recovering at the hospital. Frida would go on to have more than 30 surgeries in her life, culminating in the amputation of her right leg due to gangrene in 1953. Her body of work heavily deals with her personal struggles with chronic pain, polio, amputation and infertility, giving us a unique glimpse into the patient’s experience.

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” -Frida Kahlo

04/10/2026

Single women aren’t waiting for a plus-one to buy a home. They’re doing it on their own more than ever before.

The number of single women homeowners hit an all-time high last year, surpassing 20 million, and this isn’t one type of buyer, either. It’s women across generations, life stages, and financial backgrounds stepping confidently into home ownership.

Women are more educated than ever, they have greater earning power, and are increasingly recognizing homeownership as powerful tool for long-term wealth. These stats are not only cool to see, but they mark a very clear shift in women’s financial confidence, literacy, and control.

04/05/2026

One of my favorite images of Eostra.

Happy Rebirth of life day !

Say Eostra 3x fast.

Sound like Easter !

The Goddess Ostara, or Eostre, is the Anglo-Saxon Goddess of Spring, the East, Resurrection, and Rebirth, is also the Maiden aspect of the Three-fold Goddess. She gave Her name to the Christian festival of Easter (which is an older Pagan festival appropriated by the Church), whose timing is still dictated by the Moon. Modern Pagans celebrate Her festival on the Vernal Equinox, usually around March 21, the first day of Spring.

Ostara was an important Goddess of spring to the ancient Saxons, but we know little else of Her other than this. Some have suggested that Ostara is merely an alternate name for F***g or Freya, but neither of these Goddesses seem to have quite the same fertility function as Ostara does. F***g, Goddess of the home, wouldn’t seem to be associated with such an earthy festival and Freya’s form of fertility is more based on eroticism than reproduction.

However, Ostara is associated, almost interchangebly, with many different Goddesses. [Again, purely speculation] She is essentially identical to Freya, for She is the Goddess of the fertile spring, the resurrection of life after winter. She was equated with the Goddess Idunna, who bore the Apples of Eternal Youth to the Aesir, and many believe that Ostara and Idunna are the same, or represent the same principle. She is almost certainly the same as the Greek Goddess Eos, Goddess of the Dawn. (Again, following the threefold theme — Eos is the Maiden aspect of the three goddesses Eos /Dawn, Hemera /Day and Nyx/Night.) As Ostara is Goddess of the Dawn, we can understand why sunrise services have always been an important aspect of the spring resurrection/rebirth observances of other cultures.

Eggs and rabbits are sacred to Her as is the full moon [though there is no historical record of this], since the ancients saw in its markings the image of a rabbit or the hare. Pagan Anglo-Saxons made offerings of colored eggs to Her at the Vernal Equinox. They placed them at graves especially, probably as a charm of rebirth. (Egyptians and Greeks were also known to place eggs at gravesites). The Goddess of Fertility was also the Goddess of Grain, so offerings of bread and cakes were also made to Her. Rabbits are sacred to Ostara, especially white rabbits, and She was said to be able to take the form of a rabbit.

One myth says Ostara found a bird dying from the cold. She changed it to a rabbit so it could keep warm. Maybe this is why the Easter Bunny brings eggs to children on Easter. Traditionally German children are told that it is the Easter hare that lays all the Easter eggs.

03/31/2026

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03/31/2026

03/30/2026

"Frida loved me. It’s a shame I burned a letter she wrote where she said, ‘I live for you and diego only.’ It was a beautiful love. She used to say, ‘I birthed you. I had you.’ And I told her, ‘yes, I feel your blood in mine.’ She gave birth to me. I admired her deeply, but I loved her more than I admired her paintings. She had her black mustache. It was thick, thick black hair. I loved seeing her eyebrows and her mustache. And she loved her mustache."

-Chavela Vargas

"I met Chavela Vargas today. An extraordinary, le***an woman. In fact, I took a liking to her erotically. I don’t know if she felt what I did, but I think she is a very liberal woman, and if she asked, I would not hesitate a second before un******ng in front of her. How often do we not just want a good lay? She is, I repeat, erotic. Is she perhaps a gift sent to me from heaven?"

-Frida Kahlo