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On Merit: 100 Days (51)

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Day 51:

My neighbor’s tulips, and a few more rows on the white panel. I am loving how this bamboo yarn crochets up, how the rows of double crochet stitches in this pattern create little flowers in the mesh. And the finished Into The Woods Quilt! The Janus School Gala is this Saturday. Click the LINK for tickets, to make a donation, or to find out how to bid for auction items online!

Today’s poem is a haibun, a form developed in the 17th century by history’s most renowned haiku poet, Matsuo Bashō. It begins with a short piece of prose, and ends with a haiku commentary on the prose.

Merit
a haibun
by Beth Weaver-Kreider

Mr. Hegseth claims his fighting force will be solely based on merit (by which he means he will not accept women), a word which can only be described as ironic, coming from a drunk chosen from the daytime TV couch, who had mismanaged every business he attempted to lead. Meritorious comes from the Latin verb mereō, which means “to earn, or to deserve.” His role might better be described as meretricious, which means empty and gaudy and lacking in true value. Meretrix, from the Latin, is a feminine noun rooted also in mereō, referring to women who earned their living from prostitution. Like Hegseth, the language devalues the inherent merit of women.

the worth of women
is not determined by the
opinions of men

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Legends: 100 Days (37)

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Day 37: 

I worked on the Into the Woods quilt today. I finished Wolfy and did the witch’s hat. I’m trying to get the center pieces finished because it’s a lot easier for the kids to gather around the edges of the quilt to work during break.

Speaking of wolves:

Local lore says that in Rowena near the river is a cemetery where some of the descendents of Hans Graf are buried. If you go there on full moon night and climb over the wall (the only way in), you are likely to hear dogs barking and wolves howling, and to see the ghostly apparition of a wolf—a werewolf. Some say Hans Graf himself (one of the first Mennonite settlers in PA) or some of his descendents were bitten by a werewolf, turning into werewolves themselves on the full moon. I am a descendent of Hand Graf. . .

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Back Into the Woods: 100 Days (33)

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Day 33: On Which I Go Back Into the Woods

While we’re on the subject of fairy tales, I’ve gone back Into the Woods this evening, stitching a wolfy character hiding behind a tree. He was designed by one of our brilliant seniors to look like he’s slinking up the trunk. Creepy fellow, he.

Watch out for the wolves, the old wives said. And while the wild things in the forest were definitely a danger, we can guess that the old wives had other wolfish characters in mind.

How can we protect our daughters, our children, our sisters, from the wolves when the wolves escape consequence with such ease?

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