Day 55:
About five rows tonight. And a card from the Forest Fae deck by Nadia Turner: The Old One. The ancestors call. Seek their wisdom.
Today is National Haiku Day. Here’s a photo of the one I wrote last year.
Knit a Spell
by Beth Weaver-Kreider
she knits and crochets
purposeful tangles in string
to trap evil men
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Day 47:
Today’s poem is a quickie. I like the basic idea, but I’m throwing down the ideas tonight in hopes that I can come back later and refine it if I still like it.
Vampire
by Beth Weaver-Kreider
He needs our outrage, our fear, our despair.
He feeds on our anger, our exhaustion.
Creates chaos, watches hungrily
for morsels of panic to consume.
Do not invite him in.
We must starve him.
Feed him our fortitude, our joy, our whimsy.
Prepare feasts of compassion for our neighbors,
banquets of beauty and art, fiestas of free thinking,
Gorge him with humor and hilarity.
These things he cannot abide.
They will not nourish him.
Bring him into the sunlight.
Crocheting with such fine yarn is really slow going. This is when I usually start to abandon a project. So this is the point of my choice to finish my UFOs for this 100 days—to keep me engaged in projects that don’t show a lot of progress.
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Day 35:
Resting here after No Kings Day, I made two more little poppets. Approved by Sachs, director of quality control (for everything–he’s VERY judgy).
The Lancaster rally was wonderful! Liz Fulmer and Bumbada and Leo DiSanto and the Lancaster Justice Choir and Slap and The Infamous Unstoppables Drill Team and Drum Corps brought the energy. Great speeches, too.
No Kings in the United States! Build community. Love your neighbors. Create safe spaces. Protect each other.
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Day 34:
Today’s Project was a couple more little dolls for the second set of ten.
I was going to make a new sign for tomorrow’s NO KINGS march:
TURN THE FILES INTO TRIALS
PROSECUTE THE PEDOPHILES
because I think it’s really important to keep calling for prosecutions. But I pulled out my signs from previous NO KINGS Marches, and decided to re-use the one from last time.
No King Any Time (A Side) and Nothing Is More American Than Rejecting Kings (B Side). I usually wear Weeping Liberty around my neck. George Washington was from NK1. I’ll carry my Wave Goodbye to the Patriarchy handkerchief.
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Day 18:
I think it’s time to retell the story of Little Red. Mama warned her, as mothers must do, that wolves are dangerous, on the prowl for girls in the woods, insatiably hungry. Perhaps Wolf perpetuates his fraud, and devours Red and her grandmother. Perhaps he invites his friends, and they devour her friends.
Perhaps he even becomes the king of the village, with villagers celebrating his brutality, his cruelty, his power.
Then, perhaps, Red and Granny, and Goldie and Snow and Cinder and Rapunzel, trapped as they are in the belly of Old Wolf and his toady wolves, remember that they can breathe fire. Perhaps they send flames shooting from their mouths and they burn Old Wolf and his cronies from the inside out.
Perhaps all the villagers gather around, and see the truth of Old Wolf’s evil as the Maidens and the Crone step out of the steaming carcasses.
Perhaps the Patriarchy falls. Perhaps the Bad Men face the ruin of their own making.
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Today’s Project work: About fifteen rows of the first sleeve (third attempt). And here’s the thing: I already love what is happening with the color and texture.
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Piggy Riot
by Beth Weaver-Kreider
Quiet Piggy
Sit down Piggy
I do not permit
a Piggy to speak
Piggies should be seen
and not heard
Shake it Piggy
Bake me a cake Piggy
Awaken Piggy
Make a break
for it Piggy
Stand up Piggy
Speak out Piggy
Sing Piggy
Riot Piggy
Today instead of a gratitude list, I want to mark Trans Day of Remembrance, begun in 1999 by trans activist Gwendolyn Ann Smith to commemorate the murder the previous year of Black trans performer Rita Hester.
Mockingbird Chronicles 