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

[strange_complex]

I was impressed by the size of the crowds I saw on UK news coverage of this. Well done for being a part of it. From over here, it really looks like things might be starting to change, in a way that's never seemed to be the case to this extent before. Obviously the government in power right now is hardly receptive to the message, but I fervently hope for all of you that this momentum keeps up and leads to real change eventually.

[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."

[nineweaving]

I was on the Common. I am so glad you marched with Fox!

Nine

[larryhammer]

We marched the whole route (about a mile and a half), with TBD on foot for the middle third. Their sign was "Love Everything in the World" (dictated) with a multicolored heart on the other side (self-work). Ours was "Listen to the Kids". We ended up in a knot of teens with excellent voices for calling out chants.

Of course, for TBD, the highlight was getting to ride the streetcar. Twice.