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Two Bags of Seed Redux

When I was born I came equipped With two million seeds Not warm enough Nor moist enough Or too many weeds The sun not out The soil not rich Or nothing that one needs I base my stance On abortion rights On the reality of seeds ***

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Jim Slaughter

Date: 6/28/2022 7:14:00 AM

Re Mark's comment...I'm not so sure we've ever really left the Dark Ages. And I absolutely love your reply to Rico's rather chauvinistic remarks. I adore women, but I am eternally glad I'm not one.

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 7/4/2022 9:34:00 AM

my goodness, not at all! ~x

Jim Slaughter
Date: 7/2/2022 11:22:00 AM

I hope I didn't come across as insensitive, Maureen. What I meant is I don't think I could ever have the strength, courage, or patience to be a woman.

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 7/2/2022 7:28:00 AM

Womanhood is never boring. Fortunately I’m happily so. Eef! Rico was tongue in cheeking me. Cheers Jim! xomo

Anil Deo

Date: 5/27/2022 4:10:00 PM

If it's your right, I support the fight, Jesus did focus on living, right? Let the dead bury the dead ... ?? Shalom, shalom sis.

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/30/2022 5:03:00 AM

Jesus was a feminist after all. Thank you my friend! xomo

Mark Koplin

Date: 5/27/2022 2:20:00 PM

What’s next? They might pass a law keeping women at home in the kitchen. Dark ages here we come. Righteous ink neighbor!!

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/30/2022 5:02:00 AM

Thank you Mark! The dark is intolerable after seeing light. xomo!

B. Joseph Fitzsimons

Date: 5/21/2022 7:23:00 AM

Wow, this is really beautifully done, and totally employs the serious yet humorous voice we need for such subtle activism. You're great in so many ways, thanks Mo :)

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/26/2022 5:25:00 AM

Thank you so much Joseph. I wholly appreciate your appreciation. This stuff’s got me wholly bent out of shape and only more of this is going to come out of me ;), xomo!

I Am Anaya

Date: 5/19/2022 4:50:00 PM

autonomy over our bodies! Brilliant M.T.I.R.! Fingers crossed ;)

Michelle Faulkner

Date: 5/18/2022 1:07:00 PM

I stand with you and all other brave women to say our bodies, our rights!

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/19/2022 6:00:00 AM

I was a young feminist, I didn’t expect to be an old feminist, but here we are, well, middle aged feminists, there’s still hope for us ;), (fingers crossed) xomo!

Ilene Bauer

Date: 5/18/2022 12:35:00 PM

well said, maureen!

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/19/2022 5:59:00 AM

Thank you Lovely! xomo

Rico Leffanta

Date: 5/18/2022 11:34:00 AM

Women were created to best give birth between the ages of 13-15, when their bones are still supple, but western governments decreed women can not even have sex until their eggs have "matured" to accommodate "mature" sperm to produce children with mental/physical ailments which enrich the medical profession. No baby formula to feed mandatory offspring may be a blessing - as is insolence! Aloha!

Anna Hopper
Date: 12/17/2022 3:46:00 PM

Maureen! I’m dying at your response here! I just love you!

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/19/2022 5:59:00 AM

Women were what??? Defined by men mostly and perpetually. They literally put a man on the moon before they bothered to find the clitoris. Oh wait, that was a female doctor…

Jenna Logan

Date: 5/18/2022 8:03:00 AM

A stance worth taking. Good one, Mo.

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/19/2022 5:56:00 AM

Thank you! This is an old one that keeps coming back up, a seed that doesn’t seem to want to die. ;), xomo