I thought I needed a change of pace..We still have some of these flowers lingering. The snow has come and gone. I am reading Harriet Beecher Stowe, and my admiration for her work in her time grows. Women, in that time, were not allowed to speak in public...it wasn't womanly. The attitudes toward slavery, toward women not having a strong voice are slow in changing, but they have changed and are changing.
Having President Obama speaking daily, weathering criticism, running our country
changes the way everyone in the country thinks. We will eventually have a woman president as well. I wonder how I, sitting in my little town in Southern Utah, can evoke change, calm the violence of others. Panguitch just elected a woman as mayor. She ran and won before. She is back in. Women are being elected all over the country. Hispanics win. Blacks win.. Our country is being run by the many people who live here. We are represented "by the people" in many positive ways.
I vote. I will offer an opinion. What more can I do???
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Cheryl's blog is not showing the feed, or new entry, as yours is. Yours is at the top of my blog list now as hers should have been when she posted a second entry. I think it might be the dark color. She will have to experiment, but I am glad to see that you still have this flower in bloom in Utah. I can't believe it. It is very pretty. And your thoughts are deep when it comes to the trials and tribulations of women. I had no idea that Harriet Beecher Stowe was such a prominent woman in her time. Why she was practically the most famous woman in the world. Nobody talks about her while it seems to me they talk about our famous men down through history incessantly. If I hadn't been curious about the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin I would not even have bought this bio. So we have far to go to get women in the spotlight as much as they deserve to be.
ReplyDeleteAunt Ann, I have been reading your blogging! I love reading you as a poet as well as Mom and Aunt Linda. What a great legacy of poetry and interesting perspectives on the world. I also want to thank you for the wonderful support, not of just my own blog, but the support over the years. I was laying in bed the other night, remembering the psychedelic acrobat show. I don't know why it popped into my head, but realized what a creative environment we children grew up in. Always different characters, always delving into diverse worlds. Thank you so much.
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