8/23/13

FUN FUN FUN IN THE SUMMERTIME

Summer is the expand out season of the year, even in places where the climate is less radical from season to season. It took me some years, coming from the wintery snowy weather, to notice the change of seasons in Southern California, but I took a lot of docent lead hikes in the mountains and soon enough I knew the difference between a native plant and an invader. By walking frequently I began to see the more subtle but beautiful changes in scenery. Summertime is the season for outdoor exercise - walking, swimming, sailing, and barbecues and picnics. It's the time of the year when the most flirtations happen because there is so much social going on. Summertime is CASUAL compared to all the other seasons, in clothing and attitudes. SUMMER IS THE TIME WHEN NMNK's WHO TEND TO ENJOY A LOT OF ALONE TIME CAN GO AND DO THINGS ALONE BUT IN GROUPS and MAKE NEW FRIENDS.

THE BEST EVENT OF ALL FOR NMNK's in SUMMER IS A NATURE HIKE OR SWIM UNDER A FULL MOON!

8/10/13

SATURDAY NIGHT ISN'T DATE NIGHT FOR THE NMNK!

Some of you are more COMMITTED to the NMNK lifestyle than others. For some dating, sex, relationships are part of life but getting married and having kids is not the goal. Having fun, getting to know others - and yourself - better, focusing on creating and establishing a business, making it through Grad School, or focusing on volunteer work may be the established goal of your life. You might think of being NMNK as temporary.

As always I find NMNK - An Intentional Community - gets lost in dating clubs and woe-is-me web sights, all focusing on what is wrong with life as is (or else why would someone spend time complaining?). I only wish those who are desperate to be in a relationship were as RESPECTFUL to my lifestyle and choices as I must be to them.  That is simply not the case even though record numbers of individuals are not getting married or having kids, which just might be GOOD FOR THE WORLD when it comes to limiting the population.

For many MARRIED WITH KIDS means there will hardly ever be a date night for the spouses.  Which shows it can be done.

For me Saturday night has long ago ceased to be a night that I plan to be out.  I prefer in, especially because I have so many interests and hobbies that I like to pursue.  Sometimes I ask a friend over.

Alone but not Lonely,

Sister

7/16/13

DAN BROWN'S INFERNO FOCUSES ON WORLD OVER POPULATION

Dan Brown's latest best seller, "Inferno", has all the plot pretzels we've come to expect from this author, and also, as he did in his previous best seller, "Angels and Demons", the confusion of which characters are good and which are bad until the very end. As expected Professor Robert Langdon, the expert on Symbolism in art and architecture and the Art Masters who has a reoccuring role in Brown's stories, has an attractive and intelligent female side kick who gets into the game early on.

Like the title says, the art history focus in "Inferno" is on the artist Dante whose painting The Inferno, and long poem "The Divine Comedy", gave medieval Christians a version of hell.

With an eye always to his books going to film, Brown seems to be willing to create some strong and intelligent female characters and Langdon is always having flirtations but holding himself in Professorial check. There will be no acts of procreation here.

I'm writing about this book for NEVER MARRIED NO KIDS - An Intentional Community because in this book, Brown focuses on the overpopulation of the world and the people who want to depopulate by any means as way of preserving humans as a species.

A brilliant scientist has set up the chase through art and architecture under deadline pressure by hiding a virus he created in a place where it can be carried around the world airborn and leaving clues as to where it might be found before he himself commits suicide.

In this case the means to solve world overpopulation is a virus that will make 2/3rds of the population sterile. The virus changes some people's DNA. As it spreads the infected suffer no illnesses and are unaware they've been changed. It will take a couple years before already living begin to die out naturally and some of the already living discover there is a sterility epidemic.

Is this the compassionate way when the alternative is for so many children to be born to suffering and death as happens today? Is it time to take the decision or choice away from humans since so much currently in place is not having a profound effect and better health care and the extension of life is in conflict with the realities of starvation and disease?

In "Inferno" you'll find more than one female character who is NMNK !

If Brown has an agenda in his writing overall, it just may be the attack on the Catholic Church which he was first accused of when he became famous with his book "The DaVinci Code." In "Angels and Demons" he took us to the Vatican, and here we are in Italy and Turkey, racing around the worlds art and architecture treasures where tourist season is always on.

I'm not going to attack the Catholic Church. It wouldn't be right since the Catholic Church is not the cause for overpopulation. Sure, you will have more children if you don't use contraception. The Church is against artificial methods but not against celibacy, abstinence, or the rhythm method (for which there is now a small bedside machine that used daily alerts a woman to when she is ovulating.) Women of other religions and varieties of Christianity also have many children - think the Latter Day Saints, the Southern Baptists, Hindus, Muslims.  Really, many cultures think women are meant to be mothers. 

The Catholic Church also recommends marrying for the right reasons (premarital classes), staying married (marriage is an oath to God and a Blessed Sacrament), and having children within marriage. It emphasises personal responsibility.   In the ever more secular United States most Catholics are using contraception. And as a nation, though it is being challenged, we are lucky to have abortion as a choice, unlike in China where abortions are forced.

So, if Brown has a thing against the Catholic Church in his writing that comes from his personal belief system, then here I must discuss it only as a literary theme in his work, and in this book where indeed the Church is blamed for some of the overpopulation of the world; he must mean by Catholics outside the United States.

Knowing that you're not contributing to the over population of the world can be nice, but knowing that we may be reaching to point where we can no longer support all the human life on earth and that there is so much suffering is not so.

6/16/13

SISTER SPEAKS : BABY BUMPS ARE THE HOT ACCESSORY FOR WOMEN

SISTER SPEAKS : BABY BUMPS ARE THE HOT ACCESSORY FOR WOMEN!


My first instinct is that men (still) have it better in every way than women.  But since this blog is about NMNKS's and intends to be supportive or people who have chosen not to marry or have children, I want to give consideration to my men readers, who are of both gay and straight sexuality.

I think gay men have it worse than men in general. 

But I think gay women have it worse than gay men.

The reason I think that a NMNK heterosexual male has it easier than a NMNK heterosexual female is that there is historical support for the bachelor, who is seen as someone justifiably busy with this career, be that the military or rock and roll, or his avocation - even if that is a Player. 

The world is still sexist enough to assume that when a man does something it has to be more important than if a woman does the same something - except when it comes to parenting.

But hey, men are becoming sperm doners (and nothing but) in record numbers, stranding their conquests and making those few minutes of loving or fucking a career of  (single) motherhood for the woman. Some have even 22 children with many different women and are on the Public Dole, and not getting too much hell for it.  A man can still claim bachelorhood and be cool even when he has children because he deposited them with his BABY MAMA.

WHEN A WOMAN HAS CHILDREN HER LIFE IS DEFINED BY MOTHERHOOD.  WHEN A MAN HAS CHILDREN HIS LIFE IS STILL DEFINED BY WHAT ELSE HE DOES!  I'm sorry, but while things have been s l o w l y improving for women, not much.  Women are still burdened by more parenting, care-giving, and housework.

It seems I lived my life trying to prove to myself and others that YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE DEFINED BY YOUR BIOLOGY, THAT BEING BORN IN A FEMALE BODY DOESN'T MEAN THAT I AM OR AM NOT GOOD AT CERTAIN BEHAVIORS OR ACTIVITIES, THAN BEING BORN FEMALE SHOULD NOT EXCLUDE ME FROM OPPORTUNITIES OR LIFE EXPERIENCES TAKEN FOR GRANTED BY MALES. 
When I was in my twenties  television shows such as  the one that promotes gay males as having an INNATE ABILITY TO DESIGN like "Queer Eye" would have been an outrage.  But now we are tolerant of the idea that this is so BIOLOGICAL.

Occupations such as Hairdressing, Interior Design,  Cooking, occupations that were once PINK GHETTO because women were thought to be good innately are DOMINATED by men who usually get paid more or have more successful businesses doing what women used to be choose from.

BIOLOGY HAS BECOME THE REASON AND EXCUSE for a lot of things.

PMS for murder, for instance.  (P l e e z e !)

30 years ago we would have been very upset about all the products for kids that are either girly pink or boyly blue out there.   We would not have wanted to raise our children with toys that would limit their experiences.  We would have let our boys play with dolls and are girls with guns, if we were not against violence.

Now I talk to teenage women and they talk to me about their nails.  They seem to be more interested in nails (and getting men) then anything else.  That has to be RETRO but they think its MOD!

I never met anyone in my high school who was obsessed with their nails.  Even the females (and one male) who polished theirs had better things to do with their lives than obsess about their nails as a fashion statement that would clue the world into WHO THEY ARE.  Nails were just part of GROOMING!

Today, going back 50 years to magazines focused on celebrities, Babies - Pregnancies - and CELEBRITY MOMS (the Kardashians as a big example) make the headlines. ALL THOSE BABY BUMPS.  YES BABIES ARE THE ACCESSORY ITEM FOR WOMEN. 

We NMNK  don't do babies as accessories! 

But we're still HOT!

Sister

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5/11/13

YOU CAN LOVE YOUR MOM WITHOUT WANTING TO BE ONE

It's True, you can love your mom and be Happily Infertile, Childfree By Choice,  Celibate... or simply NOT READY TO HAVE CHILDREN. ESPECIALLY BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT MARRIED.  Yes you can be a NMNK and still love your mom.

But you may not like your mom much if she's one of those pushy women who is trying to get you married so you can have "her" grandchildren.  ...Matchmaking you when you don't want to be, telling other people that you have a problem with commitment when you don't...nagging at you...

I have a cousin with a mother like that. (Luckily she isn't the side of the family that supplies me my genes!)

I told my cousin, "She has no right to demand or expect that of you."

But Mom Z. does.

It's time for this mom to go find something else to do with her elder years than wait around to be a grandma or live her life through others, even if it's her own daughter. 

Not only does Mom Z. have her daughter's life planned out for her daughter, she has her daughters life planned out for herself!  SELFISH!

Mom Z. has been a control freak and overly involved in her daughter's life for a long time. 

As some of you know I haven't posted for several weeks, which is probably an all-time record of absence since I began this blog.  I noticed it slip down in rank because I wasn't posting and - to my horror - I saw so very many more sites that are ALL ABOUT WHAT'S "WRONG" with a person that they are 30 and still not married, 40 and still not married, 50 and still not married... It's pathetic!

2/26/13

TAYLOR SWIFT : GET OFF HER BACK ALREADY!

GET OFF TAYLOR SWIFT's BACK ALREADY!

Over the last few months I've been increasingly sensitized by the way that media - mostly magazines and tabloids - have been closely following the young singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's love life.  One article after another has put her on the spot about her love life, why she does or doesn't have a steady boyfriend, or is not heading towards (early) marriage and/or children.  It's almost as if they want her to explain or apologize.  Things got worse when she ended or he ended the relationship with a Kennedy. 

So many young women feel this pressure when they are decidedly career oriented or feel that marriage and children are commitments and responsibilities that they wish to delay or avoid all together.  In Taylor Swift's case THIS IS THE SAD SIDE OF FAME.

What's wrong with not being heavily invested in getting married?  Certainly Taylor is not the first or last young woman who wants to date for fun, or date for self-knowledge, rather than to date for marriage.

The hounding by the media of this extremely creative, capable, talented, possibly musical genius, as well as gorgeous woman, makes me sick.

Of course some of the problem here is not journalists desperate to make a story.  It's also the psychologists desperate to propagate their profession, pathologizing the choice to be NMNK - even when someone is only in their early 20's.

There is always some psychologist or MFCC who wants to appear to be the expert on record who takes a public jab at someone they will never see in their office, and if they did THEN THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE CONFIDENTIAL ISN'T IT!?

Meanwhile, look who went ahead and bred a couple children - and wants more - even though she is mentally ill, does not have a stable relationship or marriage, and is in fact under someone else's custody...and is no stay at home mom to raise them.

You know who I mean. 

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1/16/13

CANADA NMNK! LIVING IN BACHELOR TOWNHOUSES IN TORONTO? FREEDOM OR EROSION OF SOCIETY

LIVING ALONE : A TESTAMENT TO FREEDOM OR AN EROSION OF SOCIETY article by Zosia Bielski from the Globe and Mail link here!

EXCERPT: There are now, for the first time, more one-person households in Canada than those populated by couples who have children. (Only two-person households are more common.)

1/14/13

2013 BRINGS US A NEW OPPORTUNITY TO DESIGN OUR OWN WHOLE LIVES? WHAT DO YOU WANT?

Sister here! 

Although I know we can decide at any time to make resolutions, or new goals, I'm probably like you.  I look to the new year to be the time to start. 

I was reading that the number one goal of Americans is to loose weight (especially the weight recently acquired due to holiday over eating!)  Well, I could probably loose ten pounds, but I'm not worrying over it.  Overall I'm satisfied with my life.

Sure there are a few things I'd like to do that I'm not.  I'd like more time and energy and money.  (Are you laughing with me?) 

Hmm.  What to do first?

Today I'm thinking about the people who swear they are going to redesign their entire lives.  Basically, they are unhappy with just about everything.  Thus the whole life makeover in contemplation!

If your life as a NMNK is not happy, and you know the source of that unhappiness is that you ARE a NMNK, well, you may be able to focus on getting married and/or having a child.  Being more traditional than many, I think the married should come first.  However, some of you may have 8 days in your week, extreme energy and loads of money in the bank as well as a huge extended family that provides free child care or raising the child in a "village."  (Woops!  I forgot to mention easy fertility!)

Most people I know are very busy earning a living and feel that they do not have enough time to focus on themselves. They scramble to get things done on work nights so that once in a while they can take an entire weekend and go out of town.  Make that scramble and lie to their boss about being sick on a Friday, so they can take off 3 whole days in a row!  (Some people love to travel alone too!)

Sometimes it seems to me that economics - money - earning it - spending it - having enough - feeling that we have enough - is the key issue for the majority. 

But I have to ask. DO YOU DREAD MONDAY?

It's easy to say to someone quite young that they can just change jobs and be done with the bad boss, or the bad business, or whatever.  Not so easy for most people. It's true that a NMNK may be totally unencumbered with the issue of having to support other people, though some are caregivers for their parents.

When it comes right down to it, what is the one thing that you want that will make all the difference in your life?


12/22/12

ONWARD TO 2013!

I see we have survived 12 -12 - 2012 and 12 -21- 2012....

and so...

see you in 2013!

Sister