Exactly. Small things. Potentially dangerous things like resisting with my own name on blogs. Commiseration with my neighbors. Did the Feb 28th no buy thing. Don't really care if it didn't make a dent, I did it. Ready to march for democracy and the protection of the Constitution.....pet my stalwart dog. Bought novels that good strong on resistance--read Horse by Geraldine Brooks. Up next are her March and People of the Book. A book club read for this month is The Frozen River. etc. On a more esoteric note, a friend commented that the Ukraine was the US's "Melos." There's a famous dialog/speech in Thucydides' Peloponnesian War where Athens does terrible things to the Melians and comments, They say, "Great nations do as they will, small what they must." In the history, that is the speech that marks the decline of Athens. The peak was represented earlier in Pericles's Funeral Oration. Naturally, I hope we recover from the rising despotism of president and his followers.
Thanks for the ongoing work and advice, Loleen! Btw, heard you on CBC's The Current last week on the value of studying the humanities at the post-secondary level. I heartily agreed with your point tha the ability to think critically and in varying gradations of grey is more important than ever!
I keep coming back to your piece on hope. It's powerful, poignant, and cuts through all the crap in the world at the moment. I love the idea of middle finger hope. It's exactly what the world right now needs but at times it's as hard to find and see as the teeny weeny budding pussy willows in the Arctic Circle where I write this. Fear and indifference stifles many of our middle fingers but regardless there are those who are not afraid to keep their middle fingers high. Your newsletter fueled ja keeps fueling me. Thank you Loleen.
Exactly. Small things. Potentially dangerous things like resisting with my own name on blogs. Commiseration with my neighbors. Did the Feb 28th no buy thing. Don't really care if it didn't make a dent, I did it. Ready to march for democracy and the protection of the Constitution.....pet my stalwart dog. Bought novels that good strong on resistance--read Horse by Geraldine Brooks. Up next are her March and People of the Book. A book club read for this month is The Frozen River. etc. On a more esoteric note, a friend commented that the Ukraine was the US's "Melos." There's a famous dialog/speech in Thucydides' Peloponnesian War where Athens does terrible things to the Melians and comments, They say, "Great nations do as they will, small what they must." In the history, that is the speech that marks the decline of Athens. The peak was represented earlier in Pericles's Funeral Oration. Naturally, I hope we recover from the rising despotism of president and his followers.
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Thank you for putting into words exactly how I’m feeling tonight.
Thanks for the ongoing work and advice, Loleen! Btw, heard you on CBC's The Current last week on the value of studying the humanities at the post-secondary level. I heartily agreed with your point tha the ability to think critically and in varying gradations of grey is more important than ever!
I keep coming back to your piece on hope. It's powerful, poignant, and cuts through all the crap in the world at the moment. I love the idea of middle finger hope. It's exactly what the world right now needs but at times it's as hard to find and see as the teeny weeny budding pussy willows in the Arctic Circle where I write this. Fear and indifference stifles many of our middle fingers but regardless there are those who are not afraid to keep their middle fingers high. Your newsletter fueled ja keeps fueling me. Thank you Loleen.