Day against Denial
Jan. 10th, 2017 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kellan_the_tabbyYesterday was the #DayAgainstDenial protest in Albuquerque (& all over the country -- there were a LOT of them). Some of the speakers were good, one was whiteguy manplainey. Then we marched, me with my drum to keep the rhythm & my boy in my back basket:
The chants were somewhat erratic but heartfelt & the signs were GREAT. I need a way to strap my doumbek to me so I'm not holding its entire weight in my left arm. My shoulders hurt a LOT when I was done.
We ended the march right in front of Conchita's Cafe, which I hadn't had a chance to get to yet, so we rewarded the boy for his patience with sour cream:
This was his third protest. He's getting pretty good at them!
Then we went home & I basically went to bed at, like, 2:30. I hadn't realized how chilled I was & it took me like an hour to warm up. Fortunately I hadn't planned anything else for the day -- if I'm doing a protest, that's the _only_ thing I schedule on that day, because yes, I can march, & yes, it takes a LOT out of me. I got up long enough to have dinner & a HOThot bath, climbed back in bed, & was so deep asleep this morning it took me five minutes to remember how to operate my body _after_ I'd opened my eyes.
The chants were somewhat erratic but heartfelt & the signs were GREAT. I need a way to strap my doumbek to me so I'm not holding its entire weight in my left arm. My shoulders hurt a LOT when I was done.
We ended the march right in front of Conchita's Cafe, which I hadn't had a chance to get to yet, so we rewarded the boy for his patience with sour cream:
This was his third protest. He's getting pretty good at them!
Then we went home & I basically went to bed at, like, 2:30. I hadn't realized how chilled I was & it took me like an hour to warm up. Fortunately I hadn't planned anything else for the day -- if I'm doing a protest, that's the _only_ thing I schedule on that day, because yes, I can march, & yes, it takes a LOT out of me. I got up long enough to have dinner & a HOThot bath, climbed back in bed, & was so deep asleep this morning it took me five minutes to remember how to operate my body _after_ I'd opened my eyes.
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Date: 2017-01-10 10:34 pm (UTC)And thank you for protesting.
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Date: 2017-01-10 10:47 pm (UTC)Also, I do what I can, yanno? I can't call (ugh phones), but I can march, so I march. I've got friends who can't march, so they call. Or write letters. Or support the people who are doing all of the above. We all gotta do what we can do, & also take very good care of ourselves & not try to do what we _can't_ do.
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Date: 2017-01-11 05:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-11 05:42 am (UTC)I just. I gotta do SOMETHING.
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Date: 2017-01-11 06:02 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-01-17 03:33 am (UTC)I know a solution exists for the doumbek, because people walk around Pennsic playing them without dedicating an arm to carrying them, but I don't know what that solution is. Know any friendly Horde folks?
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Date: 2017-01-17 05:54 am (UTC)& I know a LOTTA Hordesmen & nearly all of em are back east. :P I'll come up with something.