A moment for Women
Posted: March 8, 2025 Filed under: Home and Garden, Musings | Tags: dievca, Hisotry, Honor, International Women's Day, Life, NYC, politics, Relationships, vintage, Women, workhorse Leave a comment
International Women’s Day (IWD) is a holiday celebrated annually as a focal point in the women’s rights movement. International Women’s Day gives focus to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women. Spurred by the universal female suffrage movement, International Women’s Day originated from labor movements in Europe and North America during the early 20th century, with the modern holiday, March 8, being declared by Vladimir Lenin.
The earliest version reported was a “Woman’s Day” organized by the Socialist Party of America in New York City on February 28, 1909. This inspired German delegates at the 1910 International Socialist Women’s Conference in Copenhagen to propose “a special Women’s Day” be organized annually, albeit with no set date; the following year saw the first demonstrations and commemorations of International Women’s Day across Europe. Vladimir Lenin declared March 8 as International Women’s Day in 1922 to honour the women’s role in 1917 Russian Revolution; it was subsequently celebrated on that date by the socialist movement and communist countries. The holiday became a mainstream global holiday following its promotion by the United Nations in 1977.
International Women’s Day is a public holiday in several countries. The UN observes the holiday in connection with a particular issue, campaign, or theme in women’s rights
Thank you to Wiki for the background.
dievca doesn’t do politics well. But she can speak to what she has watched over and over. she knows who holds up the bag with family, work, community when sh*t hits the fan….Women. That’s not to say that Men are not involved and doing great things – but its often the Women on the backend doing the tedious crap. That tedious crap is what holds societies together against any storm.
Taking a walk along the Palos Verdes: a soft lesson in geology
Posted: November 26, 2024 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: California, dievca, geology, Hiking, Hisotry, interesting, landslide, Life, Nature, Palos Verdes, travel 3 Comments
At one time, Palos Verdes was actually an island—part of the Channel Island archipelago that today still comprises eight islands, including those off the coast of Ventura as well as Catalina, San Clemente and their neighboring islands.
You may have heard that Ranchos Palos Verdes is dealing with massive mud slides.
An ancient complex of landslides under the Portuguese Bend Reserve, located within the larger Palos Verdes Nature Preserve, was activated in 1956, which halted all housing development in the area. That allowed many of the homeowners to buy their properties for far less than what they would later be worth after undergoing extensive renovations.
For hundreds of years, the Portuguese Bend barely felt any movement from the gradually shifting landslide complex. But this year, residents living in the community’s 140 homes started to see cracks in the ground – in their closets, bedrooms and gardens – steadily getting bigger and ripping apart their properties as the land movement began to accelerate following two years of severe storms starting in 2022.
Officials say the land underneath Rancho Palos Verdes is moving at approximately 1 foot per week. And while it’s been moving slowly for thousands of years, construction in the mid-1950s greatly accelerated the slippage and the last two years of wet winters have only caused it to move more.
So, what is it about the land in this particular area that makes it so susceptible to slippage on a big enough scale to uproot homes and the families who live there?
The biggest driving force behind the landslide? Water trapped in the ground.
The land movement happening in Rancho Palos Verdes is called a translational landslide — one that measures over a mile long and a mile wide. It’s tending to be more uplift than lateral movement, dropping vertically at the top and rising up at its toe.
To make matters worse, there are two landslides at play — the shallower one that initially caused red-tagging of homes and a stoppage of electricity, then a deeper one that’s moving even faster.
The shallow slide has been well-documented over the decades. Its the deep slide that is of concern. Its a large complex that seems to be moving as a unit.
How do you get the water out of the land to stop or limit the movement towards the ocean? Its a Herculean task. Will implemented measures to relieve the water pressure work? How much will it cost over a long period of time? Note – a land mass this large has been stabilized and documented.
dievca really experienced the landslide driving around the southern peninsular subregion – there was a portion of the road which had a drop — it looked and felt like going down a ski jump. Much more than a 45 degree angle. Whoa!
The last of September Asters
Posted: October 19, 2024 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: ASters, Autumn, Birth Flowers, dievca, Governors Island, Hisotry, Life, Love, Nature, NYC, photo, September 1 Comment
September’s birth flower are asters. In ancient times, asters were held to have magical powers. For example, it was believed that burning their leaves could drive away snakes and evil spirits. Greek myth claims two possible origins for the flower, saying either that it sprang from the tears of Astraea, the goddess of innocence, or from the blood of King Aegeus, who committed suicide in the mistaken belief that his son Theseus had been killed by the minotaur. As an emblem of Venus, the Roman goddess of love, the flower was also used as an ingredient in love potions.
In general, asters are considered to symbolize love, affection, and wisdom. In the Victorian flower language, they also carried the meaning of daintiness, patience, and charm. However, the specific color of an aster can change its meaning. Purple asters, the most popular kind, denote wisdom and royalty, while white asters mean innocence and purity. Choosing red asters sends a message of undying devotion, with pink asters conveying love and sensitivity.
October’s birth flower are marigolds.
Photo: dievca – Astors on Governors Island 10/2024 and a “Thank You” to Rachel Cho Floral Design NYC for the history of Astors
dodged a bullet
Posted: July 28, 2024 Filed under: Relationships | Tags: aging, College, connections, correct choice, dievca, friendship, High School, Hisotry, Humor, Life, matchmaker, Memories, Thankful Leave a comment“narrowly avoid a bad situation”
This phrase is a bit more dramatic than dievca needs, but its appropriate in a lighter application.
dievca had a male friend in High School whom she thought of as only a friend. It took awhile for dievca to figure out that he was a bit more interested in her than friends. He went off to college at a Service Academy and dievca attended a dance with him, as a friend. Then he showed up at her college and started to make his move….
Enter dievca’s Lab Partner. She was an English Major with a bouncy ponytail and dievca was getting her through Freshman Chemistry. Their college didn’t accept AP credits, so dievca had to repeat the class and was tapped to assist lagging students.
When dievca’s male friend was pushing for a bit more, dievca deflected and introduced him to her bouncy ponytailed lab partner in their dorm lobby. They have been married for 30+ years.
dievca hasn’t spoken to them in about 25 years, she lost track of them with travel and life getting in the way.
dievca caught up with the High School gentleman, yesterday.
He’s lovely and they are doing well.
dievca was “Thanking God” she never married him. There would have been a bullet or a divorce.
The World works in amazing ways.
(dievca accepts “match-maker” status for their marriage and for another college friend. The 2nd friend is still married, too.)
Miss May with Al Moore
Posted: May 7, 2022 Filed under: Discussion, Entertainment | Tags: 1950's, Al Moore, art, BDSM, calendar, D/s, dievca, Elegant, erotic, Hisotry, May, Pin-Up, submissive Leave a comment
Born in Illinois, AI Moore played college football at Northwestern University and professional football with the Chicago Bears. After attending classes at Chicago’s Art Institute and Academy of Art, he opened a commercial art studio in New York in the late 1930s. By the mid-1940s, his clients included major companies like Galey and Lord, Beauty Counselors, the Viscole Corporation, and Champion Spark Flags.
During the war years, Moore painted posters for the government and also took on assignments from Gold cigarettes, Cosmopolitan, The Saturday Evening Post, and Collier’s.
Advertising work for U.S. Rubber, Nash automobiles, and Coca-Cola led, in 1946, to Moore’s breakthrough assignment – he was chosen by Esquire to replace Alberto Vargas, the most popular pin-up artist of the day. Among Moore’s triumphs at the magazine was his creation of the Esquire Girl, his answer to the Varga Girl; the 1948 Esquire calendar (with Ben-Hur Baz and others); front covers in 1948 and 1949; and the rare honor of painting the entire 1949 and 1950 calendars himself. By 1950, his two-page gatefolds in Esquire were collected by millions of Americans.
Moore contributed four pinups and a centerfold print to Brown & Bigelow’s Ballyhoo Calendar for 1953, which was as huge a success as the work of Gil Elvgren for the previous year’s calendar. In the 1950s, his corporate clients included contemporary Munsingwear, Hertz Rent-a-Car, and the McGregor Corporation. During the same years, his illustrations appeared in American Magazine, Woman’s Home Companion, McCall’s, and Woman’s Day, and he painted several front covers for The Saturday Evening Post. As an active member of the Society of Illustrators, Moore was asked to paint the poster for the society’s 1959 exhibition; it was such a success that both Pan American Airlines and Germaine Monteil Perfume also commissioned posters for their national marketing campaigns.
When photographs started to replace artwork in magazines and advertising, Moore decided to retire and pursue fine-art painting, including portrait commissions, Shortly after he moved to Crawford, Colorado, he accepted a commission from the United States Olympic Committee for three paintings for their world headquarters that would call attention to the problem of illegal steroid use by athletes.
Al Moore biography borrowed from The Great American Pin-Up by Charles G Martignette & Louis K Meisel.
A HUGE “Thank You” to the ThePin-UpFiles.
dievca 
