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[sharkhawk]

Star Member mopinko (41,730 posts)





women and gardener's 8th intelligence. apparently, i am a witch.
 
 


   
Last edited Sun Aug 3, 2014, 01:50 PM - Edit history (1)

(x-posting for more eyes- http://www.democraticunderground.com/113911387#post18)

so, gardener's 8th (last. hmm) intelligence is the naturalist.
the grower, the nurturer and the teacher of all things wild.

i am this. i always was this. my dad was this. both my gramps were this.
4 of my 5 kids are this.

the randomness of the universe delivered me a chance to spend my "golden years" doing this. my little farm is the place i am. i spend ssoooo much time teaching, especially kids. i get visitors all the time. i have no fence. i live in a less-than average density area of the city. but it is still the city

i also, of course, get a little more than my share of freaks.
since i started this 2 1/2 years ago, i have had a dozen visits from the city, long chats with my alderman's staff, and a bazillion hours of tense neighborhood relations work.
when you have ZERO of the 8th intelligence, i can talk to you all day, and you wont get it. when you have it, which is to say, a lot of adults, and pretty much every kid, you fall in love with the whole place.

i have taken to making jokes about being a witch. i believe that this is what the whole archetype of the witch comes from. or vice versa. but i do think some of these people watched too many disney movies.
i actually had one neighbor react to my excitement that we once again have breeding crows in the hood, a decade+ after west nile virus wiped them out, with horror. oooo i hate the crows. i am afraid of the crows.
this fool actually called the city to complain that i was attracting crows. and the fool from the city actually repeated that complaint to me, like it was a legit complaint.

and of course, there are the complaints about rats.
i have places of harborage. not rats, just hiding places.
i keep chickens. just look on the interwebs for chickens and rats i was told.
(i keep one of the tightest coops in the city.)
when i acquired some formerly feral cats to combat THEIR rats, (we are nearly 0 food waste here, it isnt me.) they had a shit fit about that.
i have 4 working dogs. 2 terriers, yes, rat terriers, and 2 big bull dogs.
i am to blame for all animal noise on the block.
and that includes my roo, who i can barely hear on my own back porch.

so, anyway, why i bring this here is this-
i would like to tap the hive mind about witch trials.
i would like to be able to cite specific, documented instances of women like me, who were stripped of their property.
and ftr, i am the crone of story and song.
i am 60 yo, skinny, wiry, tattooed. unkempt white hair.
property.
a propensity to subvert parental authority by talking to children without permission.
a plot full of weeds. which i know the names and uses for.

and a very short temper attached to a very big mouth.
my first tat was my avatar, with the wording-
you say i'm a bitch like it's a bad thing.

and of course, i am master of dogs, cats, chickens, rats and crows. so far. i have my eye on a little black squirrel that just ventured out of the nest the other day.

so, my beloved hive mind-
load me up. i want the cites and the names.


(ps, yes, there may be a law suit in the future. we shall see. i may just pack up and move this act somewhere where i dont have to take this shit. my divorce settlement would keep my in umbrella drinks and fresh mangos for the rest of my life in costa rica. and i wouldnt have to work like a rented mule. either way, i will have the last laugh here.)

xo du


eta-
link to wiki on gardener-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences
   
 

Can anyone translate this from DUmmyese to English?  I get she is a 60 year tattooed harpy that pesters the neighbors kids, in a way that would probably get her a visit from the cops if she were male, but what exactly is her rant here?

[Chris_]

She's a witch.

[hillneck]

Can anyone translate this from DUmmyese to English?

Just a tad of certifiable crazy going on there.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Star Member mopinko (41,730 posts)

apparently, i am a witch.

She needs to work on her spelling and/or typing, seems to have hit the 'W' by mistake.  Capitalization needs work, too.

[Carl]

To sum it up,it is a spit flying lunatic and danger in many ways to those around it.

[Ptarmigan]

This sums it up well.
 

[Tess Anderson]

Her people threatened to committ her about a year ago, but I love her - she is simply awesome IMO. As an example, this FB post she made today is just hilarious to me:

Mo Cahill shared Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America's photo.
2 hours ago
end domestic violence, and maybe we have a snowball's chance to evolve into caring animals.
stop hitting children.
especially hitting them in the head.

 

[Delmar]

women and gardener's 8th intelligence. apparently, i am a witch.

so, gardener's 8th (last. hmm) intelligence is the naturalist.
the grower, the nurturer and the teacher of all things wild.

It looked like English but I couldn't make heads or tails out of it so I googled the 8th intelligence and found that it wasn't just a random string of text or something that she pulled out of her hind end.  It turns out that it is some newfangled psychobabble that was created to make stupid people feel like they might be able to lay claim to some sort of useful intelligence.

Most recently he added an eighth intelligence: naturalist intelligence, “nature smart”.   Charles Darwin, John Muir, and Rachel Carson are examples of this. The core of the naturalist intelligence is the human ability to recognize plants, animals, and other parts of the natural environment, like clouds or rocks. Maybe this explains why some photographers have a natural ability to see and photograph things in nature that others walk right passed.

http://tinylanscapes.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/do-you-have-the-eighth-intelligence/

If Rachel Carson is an example, I'll pass on naturalist intelligence.

Mopinko got the short end of the stick in the looks and the brains departments so I'm willing to let her comfort herself with her belief that she is a grower, a nurturer and a teacher of all things wild.

[Dori]

Can anyone translate this from DUmmyese to English?  I get she is a 60 year tattooed harpy that pesters the neighbors kids, in a way that would probably get her a visit from the cops if she were male, but what exactly is her rant here?

She's a witch that teaches dogs, wild crows, chickens, rats, feral kids and knows the name of weeds.  Oh, and she has tattoos, white hair and her visitors are freaks.   

[Mr Mannn]

Star Member mopinko (41,730 posts)

women and gardener's 8th intelligence. apparently, i am a witch.
 
and of course, i am master of dogs, cats, chickens, rats and crows. so far. i have my eye on a little black squirrel that just ventured out of the nest the other day.

I am a sand witch. I am a master of bologna.

[thundley4]

If Rachel Carson is an example, I'll pass on naturalist intelligence.

Isn't she the one that is single-handedly responsible for millions of deaths in Africa?

[Jasonw560]

She's a witch.

She turned me into a newt.

[Jasonw560]

.....and her visitors are freaks.

Pot, meet kettle

[wasp69]

She's a witch.

Deep down, aren't they all?   

[GOBUCKS]

i am 60 yo, skinny

i am a witch

Big Mo is apparently also a liar, in addition to being the neighbor from hell.

[njpines]

She turned me into a newt.

I got better . . .

[Zathras]

She turned me into a newt.

A newt?

[franksolich]

brooklynite (16,377 posts)    Sat Aug 2, 2014, 05:00 PM

1. Would it be insulting to say I have no idea what you're talking about?

<<<thinks the brooklyn primitive's okay.

[franksolich]

procon (327 posts)    Sat Aug 2, 2014, 05:23 PM

5. Whew...

thank you! I thought it was the onset of a massive stroke.

lululu (209 posts)    Sat Aug 2, 2014, 07:42 PM

15. me too

La Lioness Priyanka (47,548 posts)    Mon Aug 4, 2014, 05:39 PM

30. me too.

Viva_Daddy (636 posts)    Sat Aug 2, 2014, 05:08 PM

2. "I'll have whatever she's having."

[franksolich]

The Velveteen Ocelot (37,637 posts)    Sat Aug 2, 2014, 05:39 PM

6. I can't say that I've ever been accused of witchcraft,

but I do have next-door neighbors who hate my yard (a small city lot) because I took up all the grass and planted native shrubs, plants and a few fruit trees. They became rather irate a few years ago when I had the sod removed between our houses - I own 1-1/2 lots. When the neighbors moved in about 10 years ago he started mowing part of my yard, the grassy area between the houses, and when I pointed out where the property line was he was surprised. He'd even installed a lawn sprinkler head on my property, which I told him he'd have to remove. Then, when I had the sod taken up, neighbor came over and complained, said I shouldn't do that because he likes grass. I replied that I didn't especially like grass and wanted a garden.
 
Over the next few years I had the entire lot professionally re-landscaped by a local expert in native plants so there is no longer any turf grass at all. Instead there are things like bee balm, joe-pye weed, asters, milkweed, and other pollinator-friendly plants. Neighbors hate this and have accused me of harboring wild animals such as raccoons, thus frightening their child so badly that she is afraid to play in their back yard (which is bullshit; she's there all the time). There probably have been some raccoons - they are everywhere in this city - but I don't "harbor" them.
 
Over the years I have occasionally found large branches from trees that I don't have lying in my garden. I have determined that these came from the neighbor's trees. Apparently they figured it was easier to just dump them in my yard than bother to cut them up and haul them away.
 
Then last spring they stomped over here and demanded that I cut down my trees (hackberry, mulberry and maple) that are near the property line on my side because they were too close to the power lines to their house and this was going to cause a fire that would burn their house down and I had to do this right now. Of course I refused (politely, I might add), but told them they had the legal right to trim branches that were over their property, up to the propery line, as long as they didn't harm the trees. They didn't like this response and got very angry, then demanded that I pay for this work. I said sorry but the law says that's your responsibility (which it is). And then I gave them the name of a good arborist.
 
Nothing happened for months - until October. I came home one afternoon to find that they had hacked many branches off my trees, well beyond the property line, and completely cut down several of my shrubs. And they threw all the branches, a couple hundred pounds worth, into my garden. When I complained (as politely as I could manage), the wife went completely nuts, called me all sorts of names, accused me of growing weeds, encouraging wild animals and ruining the looks of the neighborhood, and told me everyone else in the neighborhood hated my yard (I checked on this with other neighbors; they said they liked my yard).
 
So this spring I put up a 6' privacy fence in the back yard. Neighbors just bought their kid a trampoline. They might as well have bought her a crate of dynamite or a pet leopard - and they had the nerve to complain that I was endangering her with raccoons.
 
Today I got a notice from the city directing me to get rid of the poison ivy in my front yard. There is no poison ivy in my front yard or anywhere else. There is, however, some hog peanut vine, which is a native nitrogen-fixing ground cover that has edible seeds. Its leaves are in groups of three so it is occasionally mistaken for poison ivy by the botanically challenged. The city doesn't send out correction letters except in response to a complaint. I have no doubt where the complaint came from. I have left a message for the inspector to please come and look at my hog peanuts that are not poison ivy.
 
I am an old retired woman, living alone, so I suppose they do think I'm a witch or maybe a hippie because I like nature and don't dump poisons all over my yard like they do. I wish I were a witch so I could put a hex on their nasty entitled yuppie asses.
 
I get what you're talking about...

[jtyangel]

Here's an idea...if you want to live like you are on a farm, why not move yourself further out into the country? Oh, I forgot, too many right wingers out there. What I find hilarious is all the people these '8th sense' dingbats are bitching about are probably all city liberals just like they are.

[Carl]

Hey DUmbfuks,here is a clue...when you have a website where 80-90% of the members can`t get along with anyone,you might just want to consider that the problem is you.

[BlueStateSaint]

Hey DUmbfuks,here is a clue...when you have a website where 80-90% of the members can`t get along with anyone,you might just want to consider that the problem is you.

Not going to happen, neighbor--that would involve taking responsibility for one's own actions.  You'd stand a better chance of having Count Dracula take a bath in Holy Water.

[El Jefe]

Her neighbor needs a couple 55 gallon drums of round up. 

[Ogre]

All I got out of reading Mo's OP is