It's half the world's population - one day for them.
And what is the meaning of it these days? I fear it is developing into an annual announcement that women's rights are still not equal all over the world, too bad, let's get on with our daily BUSINESS, and a few sale specials, because, don't all women in the western countries like shopping, and then be done with it, until next year?
I was pretty frustrated by it all by the end of the day.... where will it take us? Currently I am reading 'Sapiens - a brief history of humankind' by Yuval Noah Harari, definitely one of the best books I have read in a while, and as I am approaching the final pages I am still amazed at the clearsightedness with which the author describes processes that brought our species to where we are now. Somehow the banging about over International Women's Day this year hit the same notch. Are we really on the path to improvement, or have we lost it by now? I wonder...
At least after more than five months Germany is approaching a status where we will have a legible government again. Merkel, once more, but badly damaged, in coalition with a Social Democratic Party that is severeyl destabilizing itself, and the Christian Social Union that has been displaying non-Christian sentiments to a degree that is frigthening, especially over the questions of refugees and how Germany should deal with them. On the same day, however, Italy is voting much more on the right than anybody would want to, the US are declaring trade wars all around and ... helper convoys are not getting through to people in Eastern Ghouta .... all very worrisome.
How much solace can one get from a growing stack of quilts for the 70.273 project in circumstances like these?
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| Will be shown in an exhibition at the German Patchwork Guild's AGM in Celle, early June |
And from finishing a scarf that had been in the making a while ago, because I had loved the pattern but then got fed up with the fidgyness when the direction of the zigzag turned, so the whole thing was aborted, with a little edge of crochet around it, all it was missing was that button to be able to close the thing around a neck.
I finally put that button on:
And got to wear it at least once before winter is over -
Oh the scarf is soo cool! And it suits you very well.
ReplyDeleteI kind of leave the political stuff to others who have abilities for it. But, focus on the ones I can do something about in my limited capacity.
Not all strong women are highly educated and so on. But we don't have to wait til they get to the point someone thinks they should be or maybe have the right to be. Value them for the strength they have already.
Though I can't change someone's situation, I can show value to them in different ways. I might help them begin to value themselves.