Friday, October 20, 2006
Hello one and all - I just wanted to hop on and post that I an NEARLY finished with the New Orleans quilt which I think I will call "Beyond the Sixth" - I am actually loving this quilt even though it was such an incredible challenge. I learned so much!! I did tons of research into NO history - both mainstream history (jazz, hurricanes, Creole, Po' boy sandwiches, Saints football...) and women's history from early feminist days to the beginning of women's pro basketball to the Lesbian Avenger fire-eating demonstrations at the first dyke march to the closing of Charlene's. I learned so much about pre and post Katrina politics. I am floored and honored to receive such support from local NO organizations like the Common Ground Collective (who espouse Solidarity, Not Charity) and Kid Camera Project and from Charlene herself.
I have free-hand quilted so many designs into the top: musical instruments of jazz and zydeco, wrought iron creations, crawfish and latte bowls, zulu coconuts and second line umbrellas. There are bursts of energy everywhere pushing outward from all angles. Now I have to do the hand work - adding the mardi gras beads and medallions along with some other shiney bits.
I will post the whole kit and caboodle on the website when I am done - I promise.
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Tonight we are off to show up for Krissy Keefer who is running on the Green Party platform against Nancy Pelosi in SF. Politics makes me sad often. Maybe I know too much. But I don't think Krissy Keefer has a shot in hell of even being heard (and I KNOW she has stances that I can solidly get behind)- never mind winning. She is so completely unapproachable in my years of experience with her. I mean I have seen all the UTube videos of her campaigning so I know that she is capable of polite discourse and some amount of humility mixed with understandable outrage. But in just about every personal encounter that I have had with her, I feel like I am nearly invisible to her. And that doesn't bode well for the person who will speak for me in the house of representatives.
Basically, I think a person has to be rich or crazy or power hungry (or some combination of all) to get into politics these days. I find it soooooo hard to believe in anyone. And I am a life-long voter. I am actively listening and I BELIEVE that the Constitution is a brilliant and noble document that is under siege. I have faith that democracy is a good - no- a GREAT idea. I'm just losing faith that the people running for government positions have a shot at embodying the idea. Don't get me wrong - I will vote. And if I were living in SF I would probably even vote for Krissy Keefer, even though she is one of the worst politicians that I have personally met. I am not so jaded as to get out of the process. I'm still in it. But my enthusiasm is waning...
Maybe I will get fired up by tonight's event....
I have free-hand quilted so many designs into the top: musical instruments of jazz and zydeco, wrought iron creations, crawfish and latte bowls, zulu coconuts and second line umbrellas. There are bursts of energy everywhere pushing outward from all angles. Now I have to do the hand work - adding the mardi gras beads and medallions along with some other shiney bits.
I will post the whole kit and caboodle on the website when I am done - I promise.
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Tonight we are off to show up for Krissy Keefer who is running on the Green Party platform against Nancy Pelosi in SF. Politics makes me sad often. Maybe I know too much. But I don't think Krissy Keefer has a shot in hell of even being heard (and I KNOW she has stances that I can solidly get behind)- never mind winning. She is so completely unapproachable in my years of experience with her. I mean I have seen all the UTube videos of her campaigning so I know that she is capable of polite discourse and some amount of humility mixed with understandable outrage. But in just about every personal encounter that I have had with her, I feel like I am nearly invisible to her. And that doesn't bode well for the person who will speak for me in the house of representatives.
Basically, I think a person has to be rich or crazy or power hungry (or some combination of all) to get into politics these days. I find it soooooo hard to believe in anyone. And I am a life-long voter. I am actively listening and I BELIEVE that the Constitution is a brilliant and noble document that is under siege. I have faith that democracy is a good - no- a GREAT idea. I'm just losing faith that the people running for government positions have a shot at embodying the idea. Don't get me wrong - I will vote. And if I were living in SF I would probably even vote for Krissy Keefer, even though she is one of the worst politicians that I have personally met. I am not so jaded as to get out of the process. I'm still in it. But my enthusiasm is waning...
Maybe I will get fired up by tonight's event....
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