A gentle angry people
Posted by knitforpeace on February 26, 2008
Anyone else remember that Holly Near song? Once you’ve heard it, and sung it, at a demonstration or a march, you’ll never forget it. Like the best of folk-protest songs, it’s easy to learn, easy to sing, and easy to modify to fit any situation.
This morning I thought about that song as I read the newspaper and saw Palestinians standing hand in hand along the border in Gaza. The protest was smaller than expected and, at the end, violence broke out, but I believe that the vast majority of the people in that line were both gentle and angry. Violence is not the default position for the human spirit.
Today’s knitting – my seashore hat, on B’s head. A few months ago I decided that I needed a new hat (who doesn’t) so I dug out some handspun yarn that I found at a barn sale on South Gotland. I knitted from the top down and when I reached the base I did a turning row and made a cuff so that it would be really warm. Then I sewed the cuff up and it is the prettiest hat that I’ve ever made–it’s the colors of the Baltic on a winter afternoon.
Marc Acito said
Floyd’s been passing your website along to all his friends who knit. More importantly, you’re inspiring him to break out the needles and try again. Perhaps one day he’ll finish my sweater.
knitforpeace said
Thanks Floyd and Marc! Marc, I hope that you’ve been together long enough to avoid the dread curse of the love sweater. I make B a new sweater for his birthday almost every year and we’ve survived this long, so I think there is a negative correlation between the effects of the curse and the length of the relationship.