Photographer Ekin Can Bayrakdar [IG] makes it very clear that color has an intense ride in his brain waves. He writes: “As you can see, I LOVE colour and try to use colours as strongly as possible.”

My brain is so sensitive to color that Bayrakdar’s fashion story “Splashes of Color” for the June 2023 issue of Vogue Arabia [IG] just derailed my morning reading plan.

In these images model Alba Galan is styled by Joanne M Kennedy./ Hair by Makot Hayashi; makeup by Ellie Tobin

Riding the Orange Moonbeam

My intention was to read: “Archaeologists Discover Entrance to the Zapotec Underworld Beneath a Church in Mexico” in Smithsonian’s Smart News. New scans of the site have confirmed the existence of an “underground labyrinth”, which the Catholic Church obliterated by not only closing it to generations of worshippers, but eliminating its secrets from human history.

Sounds like the dangerous Ron DeSantis MAGA crowd in Florida, right? This is how human history is rewritten. In this case — build a Christian church on the existing indigenous culture by obliterating the entrance to its precolonization sanctuary for religious rites.

Instead of being dragged into the intriguing darkness of the Zapotec underworld with a strong cup of French Roast, intense color grabbed my attention and pulled me out of the labyrinth just now.

Blame It on the Butterfly

Think, Anne. Why is your brain so agitated? Okay, red, yellow, orange — those colors are known to excite the brain and ignite creativity. You have a yellow sofa, for heavens sake. What else is triggering you?

What is your interest in what was going on in the Zapotec underworld, Anne?

Because you’re so slow this morning, Peony Girl will explain. You are interested in the Zapotec underworld because 1) You have a strong hunch that priestesses were worshipped in Zapotec culture and women held a place of prominence. 2) You believe that worshippers in the underworld took psilocybin or other hallucinatory agents as a form of worship to goddesses and gods. Key word is “goddesses.”

Phoenix Rising

Let’s just wind up this commentary, Anne. No need to explain why you have bought a new url that sits quite nicely with Woke Barbie in the last 15 minutes; and you finally decided where the psilocybin discussion belongs on AOC.

You are one long walk along the water from going on public Substack with your morning hijinks because you’ve fled the Russian NRA [what a joke]; copyright troll lawyers; MAGA “off with her head” white men — not the good guys you adore; Twitter; and Muslim fundamentalists since 2012.

No place is safe, Anne. Only AOC, where you turned off comments in 2012.

It seems to me — your very articulate, 4 year old self — that if you are always telling young women to find some backbone, it’s time to leave your own safe zone, Anne.

Stop resting on your laurels, Anne; America needs you right now, so get a move on. You might also send a thank you note to Ekin Can Bayrakdar, since he ignited this mental, quiet Sunday firestorm. ~ Peony Girl