Friday, May 14, 02004
Bruce Sterling at my neighborhood bookstore tonight. I'll probably go listen to him, even though I found his voice sort of annoying in that William Gibson documentary.
Actually, I found that whole documentary annoying.
BTW, the Mammals and their opening act the Wiyos were great. Go see them if you have the chance.
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Wednesday, May 12, 02004
The Mammals are at Jammin Java tonight. It's a bargin at $10.00 so it's cheaper than a CD even.
I scoped out the area yesterday so I won't get lost like the last time I tried to go see Sonya during the Great Snippage of last year. Hopefully the damn bugs won't finally come out in the next few hours and make driving impossible
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Sunday, May 9, 02004
Concerning the the reactivation of Mothers' Day.
Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts,
whether our baptism be that of water or of fears!
Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach
them of charity, mercy and patience.
We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs. From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says "Disarm, Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance
of justice."
Blood does not wipe our dishonor nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each bearing after their own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God.In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of
peace.
Julia Ward Howe
Boston
1870
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