Across time and reach of the engines and the furies

[sovay]

Rabbit, rabbit! I have two appointments this afternoon and if I can get out of the second fast enough (and the MBTA doesn't fall over sideways), I'll be singing "Zog nit keyn mol" at the Holocaust Memorial this evening with as many other members of A Besere Velt as can make a short-notice protest against anti-Semitism and white supremacy, in memory for the dead of Pittsburgh and Louisville, because this is the world we live in. If this is the world we have to live in, I'd rather live in it singing.

Comments

[gwynnega]

I hope you'll be able to sing today.

[sovay]

I hope you'll be able to sing today.

Thank you. This was not my plan for today, but I think it is the necessary thing.

[selkie]

BITE THEM BITE THEM BITE THEM

I mean sing at them
Yes, I totally mean that

*hugs*

[ashlyme]

With Selkie on this. *adds a hug*

[choco_frosh]

yup.
Good luck!

[sovay]

I mean sing at them
Yes, I totally mean that

We sang. It was cold and damp and no one had had a chance to warm up and the arrangement was a little ragged with the dozen singers or so and it did not matter. We sang for people holding candles, in the glass-and-steam shadows of the chimneys of the Holocaust Memorial. There were speakers from Jewish activist groups and speakers from interfaith groups and speakers of multiple marginalizations. A woman behind me said, "Yeah," and "Right on," at particularly resonant points. Two people led a nign to open and close the rally with. It was the right song to sing for this memory.

*hugs*

[selkie]

It feels to me like all we can do is sing in the shadows of the chimneys, and I can't sing, so thank you.

(I will bite them)

[sovay]

It feels to me like all we can do is sing in the shadows of the chimneys, and I can't sing, so thank you.

The singing didn't make the Globe, but the vigil did.

(Bite away.)

[thisbluespirit]

Good luck!

[sovay]

Good luck!

Thank you! I do not think it was the most polished performance ever, and I also do not think that is what mattered.

[asakiyume]

"This is the world, this is the world we live in. It's not the one I'd choose, but it's the one we're given." (But you will, I trust, have been singing something more rousing at the protest.)

[sovay]

"This is the world, this is the world we live in. It's not the one I'd choose, but it's the one we're given."

I like that, and had not heard it.

(But you will, I trust, have been singing something more rousing at the protest.)

We sang (unaccompanied) this song.