Beautiful writing as usual. We will never crawl out of this sewer. The horror of women being on meds while pregnant is nightmarish. Why are you so skittish about criticizing Islam? Muslims have no problem criticizing you. Actually raping, mutilating, or murdering you.
A great read, thank you for that. I think it is such an apt comparison between the time of the robber barons to now. They will take as much control as we allow. It took 50 years of activism to get things like minimum wage and environmental protection. Those things have been ‘captured’ now. We will need to create new systems of protection going forward. But the Victorian world we love was also an illusion. Hundreds of humans toiled to make a ladies outfit as you describe. Pearl divers, silk weavers, lace tatters, leather tanners etc toiled in poverty and filth so the fortunate few could lounge on that porch sipping iced drinks. Such is where we are now with so much being taken from the masses thru taxation and given to the fortunate few by the billions.
Love the depth & openess with which you share in your writings. Truly a gift you share besides all the work you do to battle the injustices of mankind. thank you, God bless you
Thank you, dear Naomi, for your beautiful narrative and insights.
We were greatly blessed during the 17 years of our self-imposed "exile" to the United States, for finding the 20-room "Goose Run" in Southborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts, after I had asked the young man, who was my real estate agent "don't you have something bigger?" It was bult around the turn of the century by the Vanilla merchant John Burnett. Living there opened a lot of doors to the local American "nobility" of the place, as it had once been the most imposing of the "cottages", second in renown only to the nearby "stone castle" of President James Garfield, whose great-grand daughter Hester we had as a guest to one of our rare dinner parties. Her husband had invited me to join their weekly tennis foursomes. John Burnett and his imposing Viking wife from the Danish (later U.S.) Virgin Islands invited us to their cocktail reception in the same town, referring to the builder of our house as "Great-uncle John").
Neighbor, Mr. Beales came by unexpectedly one day in his 1920's Rolls Royce to give our four kids a "ride" around town, home to the prestigious St. Mark's boarding school and the Fay school. His wife Elaine, an heiress of the Dole pineapple fortune, came by early to invite us into her Pilgrim's church community, after admiring our freshly arrived from Germany antiques. Our son, the youngest of our four majority-feminine children became a scratch golfer, after I introduced him to that sport at the 9 hole golf course of St. Mark's, a school started by the Burnett family.
My Dutch wife Herma worked hard on bringing back some of the glory of this gracious old place, enjoying her antique-shopping forays to find the appropriate glass-flower lampshades, fireplace protection screens etc. In the end, reversals in the wool trade forced us to give up our dream-like Brigadoon, before being able to restore the ballroom. Now-senator and erstwhile presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and partners had owned the property as a "transient" shelter for foster children, which is why it was run down and affordable to us in the 1970s-depressed Massachusetts economy. She told me that she was happy to sell to "nice people".
Let me tell you, on this occasion, thatI was greatly impressed with your foray into the European Parliament and the interview with its much-admired member Christine Anderson of my favorite German political party, for your speech about your research into the horrible results of the Pfizer "vaccine", on which occasion I was also happy to get to know your husband Brian, posing a question in that forum. I was also delighted to read above that you have a political relationship with Robert Kennedy jr., the admired current Secretary of Health and Human services.
Another stunning revelation! Bravo on this twist of visiting a historic site and bringing it to life with old and new histories that strangely coincide! Brilliant to bring the past and future monsters of culture, science and commerce- and to think we should be doing better by now instead of the horrors of manipulation and greed that still exist. Once we think we are in a new enlightenment evil rears it's ugly head! Thank you to all of you who still dare to expose it!
I was happily reading along of the Victorian women and houses (since I live in one and drink sweet tea on the front porch) when BAM, you brought me back to the ugly present of the pandemic. I love your writing. You must visit Natchez, Mississippi in the spring and take the Tour of Homes. Stay in the Natchez Grand Hotel right on the Mississippi River.
I’ve been hit with anemoia my whole life because of my love for history and learning about the life and customs of these certain eras. Late 20th Century life and society was so…base. I never thought in a million years that one day I’d long for the time I grew up in.
What a wonderful comment! And a great new word, “anemoia“ — a form of nostalgia that prompts a yearning for a historical time and place that you have never actually experienced.
This state of mind is fairly common, I believe (especially amongst readers of The Lord of the Rings series), so I’m glad there’s a word for it. :) Thanks!
I enjoyed your commentary on 18th century aristocracy class. Regarding these women you describe, I wonder about their birth control. Perhaps we’ve always practiced abortion!!
"they are under attack, much as I hate to face and name this, from fundamentalist Islam, seeking to overturn norms of liberty in the West" Finally. Next is to face and name that Islam is Islam; there is no variance of the term itself, but degrees of violence used with which to secure and speedily install.
Your intense and forthright study and disclosure of the Plandemic continues to enlighten. Your study of Victorian life seems superficially glorified in regard to the lifestyle of "courtesans" - the bitterness which accompanied the accolades, wealth, and lifestyle of these entrepreneurial prostitutes aren't mentioned here. The ruin of marriages by infidelity, the transmission of std's, the underground of abortion mills, the staggering slavery of back-street brothels during that time, (and any time of history), are part and parcel.
If it weren't for the power of the Resurrection of Christ it would be dark indeed.
Beautiful essay respectful of another era instead of being uglified by using a CRT lens. So our history is being gobbled up as well by venture capitalists. It makes sense since they already have gobbled up so much residential property. My friend and I were discussing the various plans to remove single family homes or small apartment dwellings with more ugly buildings. Walking a pretty neighborhood dotted with old mom and pop style apartments with pleasant gardens, I know they will soon be purchase and demolished so an oversized building will take its place. Some of the old apartment complexes were comprised of two long rectangles. Ugly to be sure, but in between the rectangles one typically has a pretty garden built for residents to enjoy. These complexes were built for residents to interact. Now they are built for residents to scuttle back to their apartment and dive into electronic devices and pretend they are truly existing instead to just 'exist.'
Great comment! And the ugliness was implemented on purpose, imposed by the modernist “elites” on artists and architects to degrade, debase, and dishearten humanity.
ironically wanting to understand the CRT my son was peddling in high school, I ended up back at mass but this time for real. It is no longer a cultural thing but a religious one. I was telling a friend about the Nicene prayer with the words "God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God" and how it seemed to reference physics. My protestant friend smartly surmised that the Enlightenment was called that to get rid of God and insert humans. I now hear a lot of things during mass that I can tell Marx ripped off.
Would like to know your thoughts about how the Nicene Creed seems to reference physics. Also, just a side note, the Enlightenment was in part a reaction to the theological abuses of the Catholic Church.
I think Martin Luther was a reaction against the abuse. I think the Enlightenment was a reaction to a God creator. I came across a definition from a website dedicated to its principal where it states the goal of replacing science and rationalism for the superstition of religion. Six years ago, I would have been sympathetic but not anymore.
So glad you’re back home in the Catholic Church (I’m a convert from atheism myself). I completely agree with your comments. “[T]he Enlightenment was called that to get rid of God and insert humans. I now hear a lot of things during mass that I can tell Marx ripped off.” — YES! And I think the Renaissance was the “rebirth” of bringing back the old pagan “gods” (i.e., demons) into circulation within Christendom as well.
I think you are right about the Renaissance. Jonathan Bi has an interesting discussion about Nietzsche and Christianity. It's on YT and worth a listen. But don't let his pretty boy good looks deceive you. He is very smart. Now that I am actually in the Church and paying attention, I am certain that had the Protestants not abandoned Mary, we would not have men in women's spaces. Mary stands for women's divinity fulfilling the covenant as the New Eve. When they erased her, it eventually erased us.
Not sure what you mean by “women’s divinity.” Human women don’t have divinity, including Our Blessed Mother Mary. She is human, not divine, although she is vitally important as the New Eve, Ark of the New Covenant, the Immaculate Conception, the woman who crushes the head of the serpent… I could go on all day b/c I love Mary so much and I’m so grateful for her loving guidance, and for her sweet & powerful intercession).
Maybe you were referring to the sacredness of women, women’s call to holiness? If so, I heartily agree!
By “men in women’s spaces” do you mean so-called “transgender” men posing as women?
In general, I agree that our society, Protestants, and even Catholics need to seriously re-embrace the Blessed Virgin Mary, imitate her holiness, chastity, obedience to God, & modesty, and her importance as the Mediatrix of All Graces in Our Lord’s beautiful plan for salvation.
And I agree that a major cause of our culture’s many problems with marriage, sexuality, & reproduction stem from a rejection of Our Blessed Mother Mary.
May God bless and guide you, all readers here, & all your loved ones!
What wonderful writing . You took me through every porch, room and era and diverted my thought into times past that have always resonated with me. I am now alone physically after ‘his’ recent passing leaving me in a picture of our unfolding of everything in a home and surroundings you describe. All so familiar. 57 years of memories joys and sorrows.
Thankyou for transporting me through your descriptive beautifully written words.
Barbara Jury, may God’s angels surround you with comfort and love as you find your way forward without your “him” after 57 years.🙏🏻
And look for the little “kisses from heaven” that come to you at the most unexpected moments; the kisses that let you know you were loved in this earthly life and that you are not ever really alone.
All can seem hopeless but we have the love of our Heavenly Father. We can pray and ask him for mercy. Thank you Jesus.
Beautiful writing as usual. We will never crawl out of this sewer. The horror of women being on meds while pregnant is nightmarish. Why are you so skittish about criticizing Islam? Muslims have no problem criticizing you. Actually raping, mutilating, or murdering you.
You said that your mother did past life regressions. Did she regress you, and were you perhaps alive in the Victorian Era?
A great read, thank you for that. I think it is such an apt comparison between the time of the robber barons to now. They will take as much control as we allow. It took 50 years of activism to get things like minimum wage and environmental protection. Those things have been ‘captured’ now. We will need to create new systems of protection going forward. But the Victorian world we love was also an illusion. Hundreds of humans toiled to make a ladies outfit as you describe. Pearl divers, silk weavers, lace tatters, leather tanners etc toiled in poverty and filth so the fortunate few could lounge on that porch sipping iced drinks. Such is where we are now with so much being taken from the masses thru taxation and given to the fortunate few by the billions.
Love the depth & openess with which you share in your writings. Truly a gift you share besides all the work you do to battle the injustices of mankind. thank you, God bless you
Thank you, dear Naomi, for your beautiful narrative and insights.
We were greatly blessed during the 17 years of our self-imposed "exile" to the United States, for finding the 20-room "Goose Run" in Southborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts, after I had asked the young man, who was my real estate agent "don't you have something bigger?" It was bult around the turn of the century by the Vanilla merchant John Burnett. Living there opened a lot of doors to the local American "nobility" of the place, as it had once been the most imposing of the "cottages", second in renown only to the nearby "stone castle" of President James Garfield, whose great-grand daughter Hester we had as a guest to one of our rare dinner parties. Her husband had invited me to join their weekly tennis foursomes. John Burnett and his imposing Viking wife from the Danish (later U.S.) Virgin Islands invited us to their cocktail reception in the same town, referring to the builder of our house as "Great-uncle John").
Neighbor, Mr. Beales came by unexpectedly one day in his 1920's Rolls Royce to give our four kids a "ride" around town, home to the prestigious St. Mark's boarding school and the Fay school. His wife Elaine, an heiress of the Dole pineapple fortune, came by early to invite us into her Pilgrim's church community, after admiring our freshly arrived from Germany antiques. Our son, the youngest of our four majority-feminine children became a scratch golfer, after I introduced him to that sport at the 9 hole golf course of St. Mark's, a school started by the Burnett family.
My Dutch wife Herma worked hard on bringing back some of the glory of this gracious old place, enjoying her antique-shopping forays to find the appropriate glass-flower lampshades, fireplace protection screens etc. In the end, reversals in the wool trade forced us to give up our dream-like Brigadoon, before being able to restore the ballroom. Now-senator and erstwhile presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren and partners had owned the property as a "transient" shelter for foster children, which is why it was run down and affordable to us in the 1970s-depressed Massachusetts economy. She told me that she was happy to sell to "nice people".
Let me tell you, on this occasion, thatI was greatly impressed with your foray into the European Parliament and the interview with its much-admired member Christine Anderson of my favorite German political party, for your speech about your research into the horrible results of the Pfizer "vaccine", on which occasion I was also happy to get to know your husband Brian, posing a question in that forum. I was also delighted to read above that you have a political relationship with Robert Kennedy jr., the admired current Secretary of Health and Human services.
Hugs to you and Brian,
Lyss, the Optimist
Another stunning revelation! Bravo on this twist of visiting a historic site and bringing it to life with old and new histories that strangely coincide! Brilliant to bring the past and future monsters of culture, science and commerce- and to think we should be doing better by now instead of the horrors of manipulation and greed that still exist. Once we think we are in a new enlightenment evil rears it's ugly head! Thank you to all of you who still dare to expose it!
More men should read this, there could be a new revolution in thinking. And a deep thanks for your lovely story...
I was happily reading along of the Victorian women and houses (since I live in one and drink sweet tea on the front porch) when BAM, you brought me back to the ugly present of the pandemic. I love your writing. You must visit Natchez, Mississippi in the spring and take the Tour of Homes. Stay in the Natchez Grand Hotel right on the Mississippi River.
I’ve been hit with anemoia my whole life because of my love for history and learning about the life and customs of these certain eras. Late 20th Century life and society was so…base. I never thought in a million years that one day I’d long for the time I grew up in.
What a wonderful comment! And a great new word, “anemoia“ — a form of nostalgia that prompts a yearning for a historical time and place that you have never actually experienced.
This state of mind is fairly common, I believe (especially amongst readers of The Lord of the Rings series), so I’m glad there’s a word for it. :) Thanks!
Thank you! I just saw your reply. There’s also hiraeth and saudade. Great evocative words.
Dr.Wolf, I love your writings and the insights you bring. Prayers for you and yours and this once great country. Happy Thanksgiving
I enjoyed your commentary on 18th century aristocracy class. Regarding these women you describe, I wonder about their birth control. Perhaps we’ve always practiced abortion!!
"they are under attack, much as I hate to face and name this, from fundamentalist Islam, seeking to overturn norms of liberty in the West" Finally. Next is to face and name that Islam is Islam; there is no variance of the term itself, but degrees of violence used with which to secure and speedily install.
Your intense and forthright study and disclosure of the Plandemic continues to enlighten. Your study of Victorian life seems superficially glorified in regard to the lifestyle of "courtesans" - the bitterness which accompanied the accolades, wealth, and lifestyle of these entrepreneurial prostitutes aren't mentioned here. The ruin of marriages by infidelity, the transmission of std's, the underground of abortion mills, the staggering slavery of back-street brothels during that time, (and any time of history), are part and parcel.
If it weren't for the power of the Resurrection of Christ it would be dark indeed.
Beautiful essay respectful of another era instead of being uglified by using a CRT lens. So our history is being gobbled up as well by venture capitalists. It makes sense since they already have gobbled up so much residential property. My friend and I were discussing the various plans to remove single family homes or small apartment dwellings with more ugly buildings. Walking a pretty neighborhood dotted with old mom and pop style apartments with pleasant gardens, I know they will soon be purchase and demolished so an oversized building will take its place. Some of the old apartment complexes were comprised of two long rectangles. Ugly to be sure, but in between the rectangles one typically has a pretty garden built for residents to enjoy. These complexes were built for residents to interact. Now they are built for residents to scuttle back to their apartment and dive into electronic devices and pretend they are truly existing instead to just 'exist.'
Great comment! And the ugliness was implemented on purpose, imposed by the modernist “elites” on artists and architects to degrade, debase, and dishearten humanity.
ironically wanting to understand the CRT my son was peddling in high school, I ended up back at mass but this time for real. It is no longer a cultural thing but a religious one. I was telling a friend about the Nicene prayer with the words "God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God" and how it seemed to reference physics. My protestant friend smartly surmised that the Enlightenment was called that to get rid of God and insert humans. I now hear a lot of things during mass that I can tell Marx ripped off.
Would like to know your thoughts about how the Nicene Creed seems to reference physics. Also, just a side note, the Enlightenment was in part a reaction to the theological abuses of the Catholic Church.
I think Martin Luther was a reaction against the abuse. I think the Enlightenment was a reaction to a God creator. I came across a definition from a website dedicated to its principal where it states the goal of replacing science and rationalism for the superstition of religion. Six years ago, I would have been sympathetic but not anymore.
So glad you’re back home in the Catholic Church (I’m a convert from atheism myself). I completely agree with your comments. “[T]he Enlightenment was called that to get rid of God and insert humans. I now hear a lot of things during mass that I can tell Marx ripped off.” — YES! And I think the Renaissance was the “rebirth” of bringing back the old pagan “gods” (i.e., demons) into circulation within Christendom as well.
I think you are right about the Renaissance. Jonathan Bi has an interesting discussion about Nietzsche and Christianity. It's on YT and worth a listen. But don't let his pretty boy good looks deceive you. He is very smart. Now that I am actually in the Church and paying attention, I am certain that had the Protestants not abandoned Mary, we would not have men in women's spaces. Mary stands for women's divinity fulfilling the covenant as the New Eve. When they erased her, it eventually erased us.
Not sure what you mean by “women’s divinity.” Human women don’t have divinity, including Our Blessed Mother Mary. She is human, not divine, although she is vitally important as the New Eve, Ark of the New Covenant, the Immaculate Conception, the woman who crushes the head of the serpent… I could go on all day b/c I love Mary so much and I’m so grateful for her loving guidance, and for her sweet & powerful intercession).
Maybe you were referring to the sacredness of women, women’s call to holiness? If so, I heartily agree!
By “men in women’s spaces” do you mean so-called “transgender” men posing as women?
In general, I agree that our society, Protestants, and even Catholics need to seriously re-embrace the Blessed Virgin Mary, imitate her holiness, chastity, obedience to God, & modesty, and her importance as the Mediatrix of All Graces in Our Lord’s beautiful plan for salvation.
And I agree that a major cause of our culture’s many problems with marriage, sexuality, & reproduction stem from a rejection of Our Blessed Mother Mary.
May God bless and guide you, all readers here, & all your loved ones!
What wonderful writing . You took me through every porch, room and era and diverted my thought into times past that have always resonated with me. I am now alone physically after ‘his’ recent passing leaving me in a picture of our unfolding of everything in a home and surroundings you describe. All so familiar. 57 years of memories joys and sorrows.
Thankyou for transporting me through your descriptive beautifully written words.
I needed that.
Barbara Jury, may God’s angels surround you with comfort and love as you find your way forward without your “him” after 57 years.🙏🏻
And look for the little “kisses from heaven” that come to you at the most unexpected moments; the kisses that let you know you were loved in this earthly life and that you are not ever really alone.
Wondering if anyone mentioned the obesity epidemic and what influences that might have on fertility?