And THIS is why lace was a worn primarily by royalty and aristocracy for so many centuries..Ā It was expensive and time-consuming to produce.Ā Wearing it, and wearing LOTS of it was a blatant show of wealth and excessive consumption.Ā Ā
Mechanically-produced lace wasnāt really a thing until well into the 20th century, but there remains a wide gap between the quality ofĀ mass-produced and hand crafted
In general textile arts are highly underated considering the amount of skill and time needed to execute pretty much anything.
weāve started feeding this tortoiseshell-point siamese recently. sheās beautiful, aside from the fact she has disturbingly big, bulging blue eyes. weāve started calling herā¦ āgoopā
itās goop!
GUESS WHO HAD GOOPLETS! SIX ENTIRE BABIES! mama goop held onto her gooplings for an entire week longer than she had to, so the gooplitos came out very well done and fluffy!!
Something to remember, as the election approaches:
The work is never wasted.
Even if the Republicans keep control of Congressāyes, that would be terrible, yes, I would be furious and frustrated and sad and it would hurt like hellāEVEN SO: the work we have done to get here was not wasted.
I was part of the previous ābiggest worldwide protest ever,ā the global protests against the Iraq War in February 2003.
We lost. The war happened. Is still happening.
But some of the people who got involved then worked for Obamaās campaigns, a lot of them are part of the resistance now, and all of us learned something. The work was not wasted.
Even if we lose. There were Democratic primary debates in my hometown for the first time I can remember. Even if our terrible Republican Congresswoman gets re-elected, thereās still a broader and stronger Democratic Party organization in Mike Fucking Penceās home state.
The election canāt be an end. It will only be an end if we win and get complacent, or if we lose and give in to hopelessness. We cannot afford either. We do the job that is in front of us. No matter what.
The work is never wasted.
The stories our world tells us are about Great Heroic Struggles With Triumphant Climaxes In Which Good Vanquishes Evil And They All Live Happily Ever After. Itās all about the one extreme emergency during which people rise to the occasion.
Problem is, thatās not how the world actually ā¦ works. Thatās not how change happens. Thatās not how societies are reshaped. We hear about MLK and the bus boycott and the protests, but not the DECADES OF WORK that came before, the organizing and the education and the legal challenges and the hundreds of thousands of people, from great heroes to ordinary people, who put in the grinding every-day work to make the world a better place, step by step, bit by bit. The big thingsāthe speeches, the marchesāwere the tip of the iceberg. Nothing would have happened without the rest of the iceberg.
The 2018 midterms are the tip of the iceberg. They are incredibly important, yes. But without the rest of the iceberg, they mean nothing. Without ordinary people across America organizing and talking to their friends and coworkers and paying attention to politics and getting involved and volunteering (not just politically, but for all the nonprofits out there working to make the world a better, fairer, more just, more merciful place) the election is useless.
This is not a sprint. It is a relay marathon. If you can run a major leg, awesome. If you can help organize the marathon, awesome. If you can coordinate the people running, awesome. If you can hand out bottled water along the route, awesome. If you can cheer along the way, awesome. If you can remind people that the marathon is happening, awesome. Itās not about great heroes or one person doing it all or one climactic battle in which everything magically gets fixed.
Itās about ordinary people doing what they can. What you can do right now is vote. What you do on November 7 and the months and years following (no matter who wins the election) is stay involved and stay working.
Take care of yourself. Take care of others. Donāt hyperfixate and burn out. Be the tortoise, not the hare. Vote. And then keep moving on.
SO iāve lost my job, had to get government assistance to help pay my rent and iām still struggling. until i can find my job, iām attending classes that pay very little but i will eventually be placed at a job, so iāve gotta tough it out until then. iām actively applying to job ads and attending interviews, so i hope this will be soon.
right now i need help saving/paying for my rent for december as well as bills and groceries. i know this is asking a lot, but i have no one else to turn to for help. my family cannot afford to help me and my friends have already gave me more than enough.
if anyone can help, even $1 helps me a lot in the long run!
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