Monthly Archives: August 2014
One Woman’s Rebellion
Some of us have had it with people pounding on each other all over planet Earth century after century. How can this be? What gets into their heads — and stays there?
By way of passive resistance, I placed this humble dahlia on my front porch facing the symbolically violent road work going on just yards away (loud, chaotic, foul-smelling, with big machines). Dahlia shines her pink face at the mess, “Mornin’, perpetrators. Sniff awn this.”
A little Kent State-y, maybe, but sometimes a posy is the best you can do.