This story that is told about Rome’s founding, formulation, and populating, and has bothered me for a long time. The story is usually called The Rape of the Sabine Women. Current attempts to make the story title less horrific has it being called The Abduction of the Sabine Women. It seems that every painter from the […]
Iconic R: Aretha's R-E-S-P-E-C-T
I created this image last year to pay homage to the 50th anniversary of the recording of the song, Respect, by Aretha Franklin on Valentines Day. Otis Redding wrote the song, but Respect as Aretha interpreted it, became an anthem for women and the downtrodden. Was it the song or the woman, or both that made […]
Iconic Q: It is about Quality
Quan Yin, Quality, Quilts, Queer… or perhaps Quakers, or Quest… such a quandary as to what to write about for this A to Z Challenge for the letter Q. The later portion of the English alphabet poses a special challenge as the words that start some of the letters in the last third of the […]
Iconic P: Pandora Got a Bad Rap
Women get very short shrift in Greek Myth. Doomed before creation. Pandora was the first woman according to the Greek origin story. The Gods and Titans made men, and then became angry after Prometheus helped them gain fire and they became uppity. So to punish men, they created a woman, the first mortal woman, Pandora. […]
Iconic O: The Real OG
OG in woman speak is not Original Gangster but rather Original Goddess. We will never know who the first Goddess on the Earth was. We can infer much about behavior after humans started creating representational art, but it is still inference. Abstract and intentional, the oldest art with a clear date is from Africa. […]
Iconic N: the Nature of Nurture via Nesting
Before I get into the nature of creating a place to nurture, I want to give very basic info about the human genome. The human genome contains 30,000 genes, but genes are really allelic pairs at specific points on the strands of DNA. Natural Nurture: “Most behaviors… likely result from multiple genes operating in tandem.” […]