On the subject of light
Fiftyfiftyone is a grassroots movement, people from all fifty states united in one movement, resistance of all kinds. We can do this.
About darkness, the literal kind, I'm waking very early for me, around five am, and getting up to have breakfast while I watch the dawn. Simple pleasure. With only myself to attend to, I can rest later if I need to, so getting up very early is possible.
I'm continuing my second glove today, with an audio book.
And reading later
I've read this before, a few years ago, and it's still good reading. The war in question is WWI. My mother used to talk about the wonderful hot summer before war broke out, and my dad joined up.
They married in 1918, after he'd been wounded in the battle of the Somme, then spent long months in rehab learning to walk again. He was in a country house, as described in The Hazelbourne Ladies, where the family home is to be used as a rehab hospital. Downton Abbey likewise, if you remember. Except my dad did it in real life. Aged 22.
Happy day, everyone, enough looking back, now it's looking ahead and working for better days. Starting for me with a message to the Attorney General of Wisconsin asking about the illegality of M**k's offering money for votes in the upcoming Supreme Court election.
And yesterday I was looking for a way to message SecDef Hegseth, ended up reporting the intelligence blunder as a technical problem! And got a solemn acknowledgment. I was thinking of the old mechanic joke about the car, needing to fix the nut behind the wheel.
Honestly, if you can't have a bit of fun with resistance, what are we fighting for?
The short memory about your parents is interesting.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how hard you have to fight. Your government seems hell bent on self destruction. I really hope the extremes of what has happened can be undone by the next more professional government.
My hopes too. However I may not live long enough to see in a better president, so meanwhile if I go down, I'm going down fighting.
DeleteIsn’t everything this administration is doing against the law in some way?
ReplyDeleteI enjoy learning more about your family history.
That sage advice at the end really hit home.
Yes, so much to fight, we need to pick our battles.
DeleteI hope the 50501 resistance catches on. The Signal fiasco rumbles on. How anyone can say there were no security issues discussed in the call beats me. Why not announce everything on the national networks so everyone knows what to expect and when?
ReplyDeleteThere's substantial resistance everywhere. My little town yielded 500+ people rallying at the tesla dealership, and many other movements. Sand in the gears.
DeleteI'm sure they'll still get the message, no matter how you sent it! The light in the window is an interesting idea, though personally I'd opt for an electric light as opposed to a candle, which sounds hazardous.
ReplyDeleteI'm assuming they mean electric candle shape. As in christmas window lights.
DeleteI picked that book up at the library yesterday! Looking forward to reading it.
ReplyDeleteLet us know how you like it.
DeleteYou know, if the USA invades Canada, we're counting on Hegseth to email us first.
ReplyDeleteMake screenshots!
DeleteI think about how very strange it must have been to have one's home taken over for the service of the country. I'm sure the wealthy were not used to anything like that happening. Well, who would be?
ReplyDeleteThat seems like it happened so long ago and yet... it was but a blink back in time.
The owners typically had several homes, so they could be elsewhere. And as recently as ww2, children were taken from towns and billeted in people's much more modest homes. Also occupying military. My brother was billeted in a Dutch home around the battles of Arnhem.
DeleteI like the idea of the light in the window. Will have to see if I can get an LED candle that's tall enough to be seen from the street (made in Canada of course).
ReplyDeleteThe orange idiot is going through with the huge tariffs it seems so we are in the fight of our lives on both sides of the border.
Good luck on finding Canadian electrical goods, but yes, please do it.
DeleteWe have many nuts behind the wheel to fix. ;)
ReplyDeleteHard to know where to start.
DeleteI live in a deeply red community. I am not so sure the light in the window would be safe if the people around me knew what it meant. The great facade of the Tsar impersonator knowing what he and his flying monkeys know what they are doing would be laughable if it were not so dangerous and damaging.
ReplyDeleteYou're the best judge of what you can do.
DeleteStrange times indeed in your country- that final piece of advice is one of the best of those 'life philosophy' type texts I have read. It is all experience at the moment.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's a good reminder. No use waiting till all your ducks are in a row, because they won't be!
DeleteYarnin' with an audio books sounds rootin' tootin' good.
ReplyDeleteIt's really good, as long as my hands hold out.
DeleteDawn here comes about 7:30 am. I love the pre-dawn birdsong chorus that's starting to pipe up.
ReplyDeleteI also love that you contacted Hegseth via reporting a 'technical problem'. It was indeed!
Exciting day here - first western screech owl egg was laid in the nestbox today! Mom owl won't start incubating till all the eggs are laid.
Chris from Boise
Great owl update, exciting. How long usually before the clutch is complete.
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