July 4 with the Grannies in D.C.

My longtime friend Judy Lombardi made a video (takes long, long                                                    to load) about her recent visit to our apartment.  As she was leaving, she asked me to hold up this card I'd put on my apartment door--a book promotion from MS magazine.  Everything about it appeals to me--white postcard, strong black type, the question many women answer, "Yes!"

My friend, Margaret McCarthy, New York poet, wrote, "An Argument in the Kitchen" in 1991. 

Bush has bombed Iraq;
I'm in hot water
up to my elbows, stagnant
words won't come.
The kitchen hisses,
my mother's dinner steams
behind me, my mother struggles
to keep peace.
I chop, chop, chop
carrots, celery, lettuce,
I toss it all in a big bowl,
it's all mixed up--
I am arguing with my family,
I am arguing with my father--
.... [read the rest here.]

Today, 13 members of the Granny Peace Brigade will be in Washington, D.C.  Can they/we stop the war? Many women will gathere there to represent all of us who keep holding on to the idea that this is truly a democracy, this United States.  Brigadeer Marie Runyon, 91, explains:

You know when you get old, certain physical things happen to you. One of the things that happens is you tend to loose your hearing and you have to wear a hearing aid. Well there is that man down there in Washington, who I don't know how old he is or what his hearing capacity is, but he certainly doesn't hear and we are becoming his hearing aid!

Comments

[goldenlucy]

Naomi,
Right back to you. What a vital message. (Oh to have Marie's wit and wisdom at 91!)
Excellent post m'dear. Now to check out the four I've missed. Will be back after breakfast to finish the job!

[Judy Lear]

As one of the original 18 Grannies, thank you for keeping us in the news!