The rock show rocked
Best thing I could have done, go to see one of my favorite bands with one of my favorite humans (hi Christina!). With a few days of perspective post-election, I’m feeling a bit better. A little more hopeful. Maybe we will actually live through the next four years, and come out of it more determined and organized so perhaps the better candidate wins next time.
So chin up and back to work with me. I turned in one job yesterday and have three more ahead of me in the next week or so. That doesn’t allow for much knitting time. There are a few new babies who deserve some fruit caps, so I’ll probably bang out one or two of those this weekend on work breaks. The Texas cardi has been seriously neglected, though. It’s been sitting patiently in its project bag, untouched for a week now. Perhaps next week I’ll have time to get back to it.
I can say one rather selfish thing about this whole Bush debacle: the way it sent me reeling is exactly the place in my head I need to get into when I work on my novel. Before the election it would take an hour or two of working my way into that mindset because I’m actually rather happy, optimistic, balanced by nature. Thanks to those folks in those red states with their Moral Values, it’s been a lot easier to get to that feeling of disconnection, despair, bewilderment. The feeling that you aren’t living the life you thought you were living, that reality is shifting a bit under your feet… Yeah, thanks for that, America. Staceyjoy was the one who pointed out that art flourishes under repressive regimes.
(Moral values?! What the hell does that mean? I have moral values–strong ones. They involve respect for individual choice, and the understanding that all people deserve health care and education. Grrrr.)
Similarly, it continues to piss me off that people who want to ban safe, legal abortions get to call themselves ‘pro-life.’ One of the more galling by-products of this ‘victory’ is that it was acheived in the name of values that the Lame Duck and his supporters obviously don’t understand in the slightest.
Posted by: mindy
couldn’t agree more. the sad fact of the bush admin. is that the number of abortions has actually gone UP. the “abstinence only” in the public schools is obviously not working.
Posted by: kaarin
Hi! I live in a red state, and if voting for Kerry means I have no morals, then let me stand up (along with approximately half of my state) and say “I have no morals! Yippee!” 😉 Please don’t forget that just because a state was “red” it wasn’t 100% red. There are plenty, and I mean PLENTY, of people who feel just like you do here, plus we have the embarassment of having to live in a red state, which makes it worse. It’s really quite humiliating. I’ve considered moving not only to Canada, the obvious choice, but the more practical “across the river” to a state that was blue so I can hold my head up. Oh well. The economy sucks no matter what they say, so I really don’t have the money to do either. Boo.
Posted by: Beth
I’m always drawn back to your blog, even tho we are at different places in life and I live light years away. I really fear how my granddaughter will be treated when she grows up…women’s rights and issues are in great jeopardy. We’ve got to keep being strong, I guess, and hope for a stronger opponent to the GOP in 4 years.
Knit on, keep loving and writing!
Posted by: pattie
Similarly, it continues to piss me off that people who want to ban safe, legal abortions get to call themselves ‘pro-life.’ One of the more galling by-products of this ‘victory’ is that it was acheived in the name of values that the Lame Duck and his supporters obviously don’t understand in the slightest.
Posted by: mindy
couldn’t agree more. the sad fact of the bush admin. is that the number of abortions has actually gone UP. the “abstinence only” in the public schools is obviously not working.
Posted by: kaarin
Hi! I live in a red state, and if voting for Kerry means I have no morals, then let me stand up (along with approximately half of my state) and say “I have no morals! Yippee!” 😉 Please don’t forget that just because a state was “red” it wasn’t 100% red. There are plenty, and I mean PLENTY, of people who feel just like you do here, plus we have the embarassment of having to live in a red state, which makes it worse. It’s really quite humiliating. I’ve considered moving not only to Canada, the obvious choice, but the more practical “across the river” to a state that was blue so I can hold my head up. Oh well. The economy sucks no matter what they say, so I really don’t have the money to do either. Boo.
Posted by: Beth
I’m always drawn back to your blog, even tho we are at different places in life and I live light years away. I really fear how my granddaughter will be treated when she grows up…women’s rights and issues are in great jeopardy. We’ve got to keep being strong, I guess, and hope for a stronger opponent to the GOP in 4 years.
Knit on, keep loving and writing!
Posted by: pattie