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.
