Monday, July 29

“The torch has been passed to us!”

When President Joe Biden announced just a week ago that he would not accept the Democratic nomination for president, he did not pass the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris.

He passed it to us. 

It is up to us to decide whether we want a country based on fear or on facts, on reaction or on reality, on hatred or on hope. It is up to us whether it will be fascism or democracy that, in the end, moves swiftly, and up to us whether we will choose to follow in the footsteps of those Americans who came before us in our noblest moments and launch a brand new era in American history.” ~ 
from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an AmericanJuly 28, 2024

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"We may well return to shallow  
complacency when the present 
emergency passes.” 
~ Peter Schjeldahl

Thursday, July 18

Archive : Women’s March 2017 and 2019 : “positive, energetic displays of democracy in all its glory!”

Women's March DC 2019

The size of the crowd the night before the 2019 Women's March in DC was unpredictable. Within a couple of hours on the morning of the 19th, crowds were emerging onto the Freedom Plaza from all directions. An exuberant diverse crowd of individuals who spoke their own truths with great passion and energy. Not everyone agreed with each other's positions, but nevertheless found a way to embrace their differences and speak to them without hostility or malice. Like the first Women's March on January 2017, it was a positive, energetic display of democracy in all its glory!

Women's March DC

"Time Will Pass"  2019 Mary Becker Weiss Quote by Anton Chekhov
"Time Will Pass" 
© Mary Becker Weiss
Quote by Anton Chekhov