Monday, April 29
Apr. 30th, 2024 12:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Clouds that might bring rain.
A brief talk with Sister E.
Feeling weird about my nephew who was posting "my family is toxic and abusive" stuff on Facebook. I communicated with him again, because the posts were unrelenting. This time he replied that he is "trying to process the physical and mental abuse that happened at home".
Well. That's more specific. So this means that either my brother abused this kid (now about 20 years old) or he didn't do much while his wife abused this kid?
This is the nephew that I always thought was very much beloved by my family and his parents. If anything, the parents were likely at their wit's end trying to help this kid, who has SOMETHING going on that made him pretty eccentric, not motivated at all in school, they couldn't get him to do any chores at home. Everything seemed to just stress this kid out and he'd have a meltdown.
I did try to phone my brother, and got his answering thingy, same with my nephew. Is it "my business"? Not really. Yet, if my nephew is just going to post shit about my brother, I would like to at least know what the heck this is about and if my brother is okay.
Do we believe my nephew, who is kind of dramatic and prone to manipulation? I don't know that I have to take sides on this, but if my brother or his wife abused this kid, I would like to know. If my nephew is just lying out of his pants I'd like to know that too.
I'm supposed to go home to visit family soon, and I usually go out to the family farm to visit my brother and his wife, is that still going to happen?
Are we all going to sit around in awkward silence and "not talk about" this? Pretend it isn't happening?
Too many things were not dealt with in my family, and I'm tired of this being how things are handled.
I did let everyone out into their pastures for a while, then put them back in before I went to pottery.
D was at pottery, and we talked. I talked about my nephew and she talked about her puppy.
I did some trimming on something I threw last week, made a lid for it, and also threw another item. These are going to hopefully become rake pieces.
I also got a few things back that are finished now, and they're okay. One vase turned out very well.
Then I got groceries, and was there early enough that it didn't feel rushed.
I got home and my husband helped put everything away, then he went to bed.
Mali is a land locked country in West Africa. It has about 22 million people, with about 67% under the age of 25, which means a potential population boom. That said: " Life expectancy at birth was 53.06 years total (51.43 for males and 54.73 for females).[133] Mali has one of the world's highest rates of infant mortality,[4] with 106 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2007.[133]"
The ancient people of Mali were mostly either Berbers and Tuareg tribal people, who still make up a fair number of people.
"Mali was once part of three extremely powerful and wealthy West African empires that controlled trans-Saharan trade: the Ghana Empire (for which Ghana is named), the Mali Empire (for which Mali is named), and the Songhai Empire. At its peak in 1300, the Mali Empire was the wealthiest country in Africa[20] and one of the wealthiest on earth, with its 14th-century emperor Mansa Musa believed to be one of the wealthiest individuals in history.[21][22][23] Besides being an economic powerhouse, medieval Mali was a centre of Islam, culture and knowledge, with Timbuktu becoming a renowned place of learning with its university, one of the oldest in the world still active. The expanding Songhai Empire absorbed the empire in 1468,[not verified in body] followed by a Saadian army which defeated the Songhai in 1591. In the late 19th century, during the Scramble for Africa, France seized control of Mali, making it a part of French Sudan; as the Sudanese Republic, a brief federation with Senegal was formed, achieving independence in 1960. After Senegal's withdrawal, the Republic of Mali was established. After a long period of one-party rule, a coup in 1991 led to a new constitution and the establishment of Mali as a democratic, multi-party state."
A great deal of Mali is uninhabited/able Sahara Desert, and most of it's population lives in the South, which is entirely dependent on the Niger River for it's habitability, as well as producing most of it's electricity.
There is a great deal of agriculture in the South, most people are occupied in the agriculture sector.
Mali also has a LOT of gold, phosphate, kaolin, uranium, limestone, and cotton. It is not a very developed nation as of yet, and still quite poor.
Women's rights are not doing so well. Traditional roles are still expected for most women, though some change is slowly happening. Violence against women is a huge issue. Girls still have low education rates, with few opportunities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali
https://youtu.be/5Twr04-ViR4?si=Cb93iQa2Rxl19zlj
A very interesting video about the town of Djenne, still very traditional architecture of mud bricks, as well as the famous Great Mosque of Djenne which is also made of mud bricks. This video gives a good sense of the region.
https://youtu.be/Q1OpDqmaXo8?si=I9PAWvcEx54Z2wpW
Clouds that might bring rain.
A brief talk with Sister E.
Feeling weird about my nephew who was posting "my family is toxic and abusive" stuff on Facebook. I communicated with him again, because the posts were unrelenting. This time he replied that he is "trying to process the physical and mental abuse that happened at home".
Well. That's more specific. So this means that either my brother abused this kid (now about 20 years old) or he didn't do much while his wife abused this kid?
This is the nephew that I always thought was very much beloved by my family and his parents. If anything, the parents were likely at their wit's end trying to help this kid, who has SOMETHING going on that made him pretty eccentric, not motivated at all in school, they couldn't get him to do any chores at home. Everything seemed to just stress this kid out and he'd have a meltdown.
I did try to phone my brother, and got his answering thingy, same with my nephew. Is it "my business"? Not really. Yet, if my nephew is just going to post shit about my brother, I would like to at least know what the heck this is about and if my brother is okay.
Do we believe my nephew, who is kind of dramatic and prone to manipulation? I don't know that I have to take sides on this, but if my brother or his wife abused this kid, I would like to know. If my nephew is just lying out of his pants I'd like to know that too.
I'm supposed to go home to visit family soon, and I usually go out to the family farm to visit my brother and his wife, is that still going to happen?
Are we all going to sit around in awkward silence and "not talk about" this? Pretend it isn't happening?
Too many things were not dealt with in my family, and I'm tired of this being how things are handled.
I did let everyone out into their pastures for a while, then put them back in before I went to pottery.
D was at pottery, and we talked. I talked about my nephew and she talked about her puppy.
I did some trimming on something I threw last week, made a lid for it, and also threw another item. These are going to hopefully become rake pieces.
I also got a few things back that are finished now, and they're okay. One vase turned out very well.
Then I got groceries, and was there early enough that it didn't feel rushed.
I got home and my husband helped put everything away, then he went to bed.
Mali is a land locked country in West Africa. It has about 22 million people, with about 67% under the age of 25, which means a potential population boom. That said: " Life expectancy at birth was 53.06 years total (51.43 for males and 54.73 for females).[133] Mali has one of the world's highest rates of infant mortality,[4] with 106 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2007.[133]"
The ancient people of Mali were mostly either Berbers and Tuareg tribal people, who still make up a fair number of people.
"Mali was once part of three extremely powerful and wealthy West African empires that controlled trans-Saharan trade: the Ghana Empire (for which Ghana is named), the Mali Empire (for which Mali is named), and the Songhai Empire. At its peak in 1300, the Mali Empire was the wealthiest country in Africa[20] and one of the wealthiest on earth, with its 14th-century emperor Mansa Musa believed to be one of the wealthiest individuals in history.[21][22][23] Besides being an economic powerhouse, medieval Mali was a centre of Islam, culture and knowledge, with Timbuktu becoming a renowned place of learning with its university, one of the oldest in the world still active. The expanding Songhai Empire absorbed the empire in 1468,[not verified in body] followed by a Saadian army which defeated the Songhai in 1591. In the late 19th century, during the Scramble for Africa, France seized control of Mali, making it a part of French Sudan; as the Sudanese Republic, a brief federation with Senegal was formed, achieving independence in 1960. After Senegal's withdrawal, the Republic of Mali was established. After a long period of one-party rule, a coup in 1991 led to a new constitution and the establishment of Mali as a democratic, multi-party state."
A great deal of Mali is uninhabited/able Sahara Desert, and most of it's population lives in the South, which is entirely dependent on the Niger River for it's habitability, as well as producing most of it's electricity.
There is a great deal of agriculture in the South, most people are occupied in the agriculture sector.
Mali also has a LOT of gold, phosphate, kaolin, uranium, limestone, and cotton. It is not a very developed nation as of yet, and still quite poor.
Women's rights are not doing so well. Traditional roles are still expected for most women, though some change is slowly happening. Violence against women is a huge issue. Girls still have low education rates, with few opportunities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali
https://youtu.be/5Twr04-ViR4?si=Cb93iQa2Rxl19zlj
A very interesting video about the town of Djenne, still very traditional architecture of mud bricks, as well as the famous Great Mosque of Djenne which is also made of mud bricks. This video gives a good sense of the region.
https://youtu.be/Q1OpDqmaXo8?si=I9PAWvcEx54Z2wpW
