There's a place I think of often, where we're still twenty-three in Boston

[sovay]

I dreamed twice that it was snowing too hard for me to make it out to Roxbury for the March for Our Lives, but I am awake now and it merely looks chilly and overcast. I can walk in that. So, I hope, will many other people. To buses.

[edit] I marched with gaudior and Fox and we picked up choco_frosh along the way. We were surrounded by signs and teens and children and families and drums and the industrial glitter-pink banner of Gays Against Guns, which we wound up marching near for much of the route from Roxbury Crossing to Boston Common. The Globe estimated about 50,000 attendees, but my mother is hearing higher numbers. Perhaps as many as a million in D.C. Fox was not the youngest person we saw at the march, but they were the youngest we saw consistently on foot rather than stroller or baby-sling, often running back and forth along the sidewalks to make friends with dogs or cars. And it did snow, but only around three o'clock when we were safely sitting down in a very crowded Panera on Boylston Street. I am home now and sitting down with cats. A man who looked like Frank Morgan just rang our doorbell by mistake. There were a lot of people in the streets today saying lives are worth more than guns. This was worth doing.

Comments

[skygiants]

I could not make the march but was at the rally, and we saw so many adorable protest dogs that we all regretted not having our protest signs read "I'M HERE TO PROTEST GUNS AND PET DOGS."

[sovay]

I could not make the march but was at the rally, and we saw so many adorable protest dogs that we all regretted not having our protest signs read "I'M HERE TO PROTEST GUNS AND PET DOGS."

An admirable sentiment!

How was the rally? gaudior and I were both out of stamina and Fox was close to winding up and crashing (and it seemed to be very loud and I was out of tolerance for loud, since I am not allowed to wear earplugs with this ear infection and would normally have done so for both public transit and the march), but from the Globe it sounded like people said what needed saying and said it well.

[skygiants]

I was up on the hill with the Civil War memorial in order to easily find people, so honestly I could only half-hear what was going on, but what I heard sounded good! Mostly we saw a lot of great signs and, as aforementioned, dogs. (Including a number of great signs tucked in amongst the Civil War Memorial itself, which I liked a lot as a notion and wished I had brought one to hang around the neck of the big bronze soldier with the musket.)

[julian]

Ah, that's where the sign graveyard was materializing. I left a bit too early for that, but I'm sure the Historical Society people will be glad it existed.

(wait, it wasn't the Historical Society)

[sovay]

(wait, it wasn't the Historical Society)

Thanks for the link! I did wonder.

[sovay]

Including a number of great signs tucked in amongst the Civil War Memorial itself, which I liked a lot as a notion and wished I had brought one to hang around the neck of the big bronze soldier with the musket.)

Since I am pessimistically sure there will be other marches of this kind, optimistically I think that's an excellent idea and you should do it. As an alumna of a university which once memorably gave nine-foot bronze Louis D. Brandeis a pumpkin head for Halloween, I am in favor of treating statues like living art.

(I still want to make him a golem. I need to get permission first.)

[selkie]

We have the dirt at work in little Hebraized-lettered pouches, but the mayim chayim from a virgin well is going to take some doing, is what.

I asked the rabbi and he said the dirt was fine and correct. Don't think I didn't. November 9 I asked him.