Happy Women's Sufferage Belated Anniversary

Have you seen Iron Jawed Angels? The 19th Amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920. The amendment was challenged in 1922, and the Supreme Court slapped that notion down like a bottle fly. Today, a friend in NM, let's call her Leapheart, is having a party. Because Feminism is Fun, too. She has many talents ... one of them is voting.

I'm hosting a tea/piano party to celebrate my "new" piano. There are 15 women coming. I have tea pots and tea cups/saucers, four kinds of tea, decaf coffee and. . . a "sundae bar" where the women will assemble their own sundaes. I have five kinds of ice cream and sherbert, and toppings: nuts and fruits and sauces and liquers. And, of course, I baked a cake. I painted all the lawn/patio furniture John Deere green. I've been practicing Bach and Handel and Mozart pieces to play. And two friends are bringing recorders to join me on a couple of pieces. I crocheted a shawl to present to the woman who sold me the piano (a new prof at Western). The women range from 25 to 86 years old. I have little bouquets all around the house: dahlias and zinnias and roses.

Democracy is way more than voting. Government, as has been said, is a blunt instrument. Civil Disobedience and a non-violent, aggressive, insistent will to be pummelled with paving stones by a crowd of your fellow citizens (as these women were, among other atrocities) are also required. Or, as the folks at Zendik like to say, "Stop bitching. Start a revolution." Revising the content of Congress will be nice start.