Hi there. I was gonna tell you today that the blog is moving. Or I could have told you about the sweater that is Almost! Finished! Will be shortly, now that I’ve received the additional skein of yarn that I needed for the last inch. Or about the business card concepts that I’ve put together for my hairstylist. But those things are going to wait for a couple of more days. Instead I’m going to tell you about this.
If you watch the news at all, you probably know that there’s stuff afoot at Wisconsin’s capitol these days. It’s kind of weird that we’re in the national headlines for days running. And I’m not the most politically charged person, so I’m not even going to get into my opinion of unions or rights or right and left or what I agree or disagree with here. I don’t feel this is the place for that, the place for that is elsewhere. I am, however, going to say how incredibly proud I am that people are speaking up. Peacefully, at that. It’s too bad that something has happened here to make it necessary for people to protest, but I believe people don’t protest enough. Maybe it’s hypocritical of me to say I don’t want to bring politics here to this blog, yet I wish people would speak out for themselves more often. I apologize for my hypocrisy. Perhaps it’s something I too am finding my way through. But I found myself getting quite emotional the other day, being in that group of tens of thousands of people, all within a few blocks’ area, peacefully standing up for what they believe in. Thank you, Wisconsin, for making me feel human.
So, with that short paragraph, I hope that I haven’t shoved anything distasteful down your throat, and that you will stay with me in the next few days, when I return with a finished sweater, some groovy business card designs, and a new home for this blog.
Great photos. Also, when you said your blog is moving, I got all anxious. Why? How silly.
No anxiety necessary, Grace. I’m just planning on moving it to a dedicated url, off of wordpress. I’d like a little more control over how it looks, and the opportunity to redesign it from the ground up in the future. So there will be a new url, but I’ll announce it, because of course I want peeps to follow me.
Wisconsin has made me feel some very human emotions lately as well.
Can’t wait to see what you do with your new digs.
I’m proud of you, I’m proud of all of the protesters. And I’m afraid for all of us and especially all of the public service workers who are bearing the brunt of “reforms.” In TN it is beginning to happen with teachers.
Great photos! I’ve been following the protests quite closely, as I’m a Badger and a fellow state employee and union member. I have mixed feelings about unions, but my feelings about Walker and the way he has handled WI affairs are anything but mixed. Absolutely unacceptable! P.S. Read up on the Koch brothers if you haven’t done so already — they finally merited a mention in today’s NYT for their connection to what’s going on in WI.
I’m at the Capitol in spirit.
I am a lurker but I came out to say I totally agree!
I recently had a dilema about blogging about our protests here in London, which despite the inital media frenzy have been calm and peaceful too. I sat watching a little girl getting her facepainted at the ‘Hands off our Public Services’ rally for example and thought ‘Being political is a very interesting thing, it’s not what you think’.
Thank you for being braver than me to blog about it (I just got a little ranty on my blog instead and sidestepped the issue)
It’s a slippery slope, isn’t it? I never quite know how to approach spiky issues on the blog, since I feel that most people don’t come here for that. But at the same time, it’s so important to have an opinion.
Thanks for coming out of lurkdom!
I think, in a blog like this, you need to say your truth.
It’s really important, so thanks.