The Narrative Within

smile power

Posted on April 15, 2025 by Art for Housewives

Smiles can reduce stress even if they’re self-induced and not spontaneous. Well, all one has to do is look at the news to get stressed out. So today I will try to smile as much as possible.

Smiles improve mood because they release dopamine and endorphin, the feel good chemicals.

Smiles also make you more attractive and more approachable. When someone smiles at you, often we respond automatically with a smile of our own.

Exercise for the smile muscle zygomaticus via The Face

Kit Marlowe (1564-1593) was an English playwright who introduced “comic relief” during the Elizabethan era. When a play is dark and heavy, comic relief moments help the audience catch their breath before moving on with the plot.

Some smiles in art:

St John the Baptist by Leonardo

The Ricotta Eaters by Vincenzo Campi c. 1585

STEEN, Jan Havicksz., Autorretrato con laúd, c.1663-1665

Smiley

Related: A History of the Smile in Art, Why were faces in most paintings of the past rarely portrayed smiling? + The Serious and the Smirk, The Smile in Portraiture +

Smiles in portraiture + The Evolution of Smiles in Art: A Journey Through Time + Why Are Smiles so Rare in Art +

Who Really Invented the Smiley Face? + The Earliest Known Photos of People Smiling + How Did the “Smile” Become a Friendly Gesture in Humans? +

Smile + When did humans start to smile? +

Why Smiling Is a Superpower by Mimi O’ Connor

Posted in Daily Aesthetics, exploring the self, Introspection | Tagged Comic relief, Kit Marlowe, smiles, Zygomaticus | Leave a comment

baby dolls

Posted on April 13, 2025 by Art for Housewives

Your childhood follows you wherever you go.

Every day we hear about children being abused, abducted, and even murdered. It’s the same news over and over but without anyone asking “Why does this happen?” Instead the focus seems to be more about punishment than prevention. But if there are epidemic numbers of children’s childhoods being destroyed, it’s imperative that we seek solutions.

Researchers have yet to come up with a precise reason for child abuse. Some researchers give more weight to neurological abnormalities whereas others focus on psychological pathologies.

In 1978, Robert Ressler and John Douglas of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit interviewed hardcore convicts searching for what motivated them to kill. They tried to find the common factors among criminals and that’s how Psychological Profiling emerged.

What’s surprising is that there are so many common factors such as dysfunctional families, violence, poverty, etc. but what’s being done to change these factors that potentially lead to crime? Studies show that pedophiles often suffer from low self-esteem, have a limited IQ, and probably were abused themselves as children.

Surfing in and out of the news is the Jeffrey Epstein client list. It’s believed that Epstein kept a list of names of those participating in his sex trafficking ring.

This bipartisan list, mainly used as a political tool, is above all a manifestation of a sick society where sleezy old rich men try to make themselves feel macho by abusing powerless young girls.

The names of those who destroyed young lives just for their own perverted ego need to be exposed.

AI is politely requested to invent an imagination of its own.

They’re coming to get us.

Related: “Pedophilia and Sexual Offending again Children” by Michale Seto + Why are Republicans obsessed with pedophiles? + The right-wing media’s shameful history of defending pedophilia and sexualizing children +

Who Are the Republican Sex Offenders Who Have Been Under Our Noses for a Long Time? + Sadistic Personality: Understanding the Dark Side of Human Behavior ]

July 23 The Epstein situation is exploding. The pus coming out is disgusting.

Recently discovered: The Pedocon Theory

Posted in Conditions of Possibility, Ecofeminism, exploring the self, female consciousness | Tagged childhood, Jeffrey Epstein, pedophiles, profiling | Leave a comment

like a lobster

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Art for Housewives

colored drawing of a blue lobster and a black cat

Blue lobsters are extremely rare. Their color is due to a genetic anomaly. Although coveted by some cuisine connoisseurs, it seems they taste like any other lobster. Maybe because once they’re cooked, they turn red like the others.

Picasso painted various lobsters including one of a blue lobster with a cat. The cat is afraid and hisses.

Francoise Gilot, like a blue lobster, was also rare. She was the only woman who had escaped the devastating effect Picasso had on the women who loved him.

drawing of an elderly man carrying a beach umbrella for a younger woman

Picasso’s “Lobster and Cat” at the Guggenheim

Other artists have also been intrigued by lobsters:

Mosaic from Pompeii showing a lobster fighting an octopus at the National Archaeological Museum, Naples via

“Still life with Lobsters” by Eugene Delacroix

Lobster Dress…The lobster dress is a 1937 dress designed by Elsa Schiaparelli. It features a large lobster painted by Salvador Dalí.

The lobster as symbol + Lemons and lobsters and cabbages, oh my! Symbolic food in painting + Famous Lobsters in Art +

Posted in art, Art Narratives, Beauty | Tagged Lobster and Cat, Picasso | Leave a comment

Purring Together

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Art for Housewives

colored drawing of a woman napping with a cat

After lunch, I nap. Often Volver, our cat, naps with me. He likes to get into a comfortable position then starts purring and purring. And the sound of his purrs fills me with tenderness.

To experience tenderness in these times is so very comforting.

Cat purrs stimulate the release of endorphins. These purrs have a frequency of 25-150 Hertz. This range of frequency can help heal the body as it promotes bone growth and muscle repair.

So let’s help those kitties purr!

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Posted in Art Narratives, Daily Aesthetics, Ecofeminism | Tagged cats, Frequency, Naps, Tenderness, Volver | Leave a comment

From puddles to ponds

Posted on April 3, 2025 by Art for Housewives

colored drawing of a woman next to a puddle and a dog looking on

Puddles come and go. The rain creates them and then the sun destroys them. But beavers can transform a puddle’s raison d’etre. Because beavers are engineers. They construct dams to store water producing ponds and wetlands for themselves and other life forms. And most importantly, these dams store and increase groundwater.

Beavers were once over-hunted for their pelts and their castoreum, a substance excreted by beavers used for making perfume. Beavers nearly became extinct until laws were made to protect them.

Photo of a beaver coming out of a box attached to a parachute — The Beaver Drop

When wetlands, now no longer inhabited by beavers, started drying up, someone made the connection between the land and the beavers. So it was decided to transplant beavers to areas that were in an ecological crisis. Initially, they were parachuted into their new surroundings.