Witches are women

Have you ever wondered why "Witches are female and witch doctors are male?"

Here are two links that explain how it started in the Western world:

http://www.salemtarot.com/archive/seminar.html
https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/ehrenreich-barbara/witches.htm

God have a mercy for the people of Nepal

I’ve not had time to write blogs lately; too busy with my book and others. But the news of another earthquake in Nepal almost paralyzed me this morning. I’ve no mood to carry on my regular chores. My hands are shaky and I’m very upset with the God!

I've been talking with my God regularly since I was a child. This morning my communication with God was more like a rebuke than prayers. I asked Him bluntly his purpose of this catastrophe in Nepal? "Haven’t the people of Nepal suffered enough from the brutality of the Maoist?", I asked.

In a time like this, I feel fortunate to have lived in Canada with my husband and children. But I know Canada is not immune to earthquake, either. However, being close to the "plates" Nepal gets earthquake more frequently than it deserves!  

My family left Nepal a long time ago. We came of our own, without the support of the Nepal government. So, we didn't 'betray' our birth country. Instead, we've been helping a few people financially when they are in real trouble. Still, Nepal is our birthplace and the one with lots of childhood memories. So, our feelings for the country remains intact. 

Nepal is just like any other poor nations with good and bad people. Being poor is not the worst thing for the country, but being illiterate and corrupt  government have been! Deceitful bourgeoisie are better off now than ever before, but the poor and vulnerable people are suffering more than they can handle!

When I got another news of another earthquake in Nepal this morning, my first response was to give calls to our immediate families from both sides. When I found out they're okay physically, my mind rushed to million others who may not have been so lucky with their situation.

God is too powerful to mess up with, so instead of fighting with Him, I left home to purchase a few yellow rosebushes and two carts of pink petunias from the nearest nursery. I planted them in my front lawn for the peace of my people back home. Then, I  was called for interviews by the CBC radio and television.  

It was a long day today and my bedtime prayers was: God have mercy for the people of Nepal!

Being negative

I suppose you can call me negative for I do notice more cheating than helping attitudes of the people around me. I also hear more cry for help then people extending their hands to help others. My eyes catch more crimes than the good deeds in the society, and I hear more sad stories from around the globe the first thing in the morning. Melodious peace-songs are not for the morning-news, I guess.

 Have you ever noticed the negative words outnumbering the positive ones in your dictionaries? It's true! As I write this piece, I searched for a few appositives to challenge my thoughts and found only a few positives of them. Strange, you might think, and it is!

You may find it wired to believe that our world is made of more negative materials, more negative people, and more negative vibes. This is why we see more bad dreams than the good ones. Instead of taking us to the sunny beaches and green meadows, our dreams often take us to the dark and scary places. I wanted to find out why. Then, I read this:

  “…First Glimpse of the shadow universe around us…” in January 2015 National Geographic. In it I read that our old galaxy was made up with more of the “dark matter” and “dark energy” than the ‘normal’ matters and ‘normal’ energy we see nowadays. “Some of that dark energy are still floating around the universe”, I read. All my bad dreams suddenly make sense to me!

 However, to give my negativity a chance I read a few biographies of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ people and found that the negative people are closer to reality than the positive ones. I don’t know if this makes sense to you, but it does to me. For example, I’m one of those negative persons whose future predicaments have come to materialize 95 percent of the time out of 100.

I’ve observed the lives of my positive and negative friends. As I watch these two categories of people growing old visibly side-by-side, I noticed the negative persons living their lives placidly than the positive ones. For example, my positive friends thought everything was happening to them because of the choices they made. But when they got into the situations that they hadn’t think about, they were doomed. They didn’t know how to come out of them. On the other hand, my negative friends, who had been reeling about their misfortunes for years, knew adversities are part of their lives and found their way out in real difficult situations.

It seems to me that there is some merit for being a negative person after all!