Tag Archives: RESIST

Keeping Up the Fight

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Mary Beth Frezon

‘Despair, or folly?’ said Gandalf. ‘It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as … Continue reading →

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Day Seventeen, NaPoWriMo

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Mary Beth Frezon

The radio spits out news that can’t be held listening as witness, eyes opening and turning to the weirdness of snow on the seventeenth of April, snow, hail, sleet doesn’t this seem more likely than all that world stuff? Mid-April, … Continue reading →

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Day 4 NaPoWriMo

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Mary Beth Frezon

Grey stubble of trees along the river fuzz along the ridges waiting for spring clouds grey above, water steel hills dark, trees bare and shaking in the hard wind of today we’re all trembling, waiting for spring praying for strength … Continue reading →

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Day Two NaPoWriMo 2018

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Mary Beth Frezon

The drive in and lunchtime On awakening, scrim of snow, April second all kinds of fake news. On April second, the snow, a scrim obscuring, all kinds of fake news pouring from the radio dripping down the screens Turn them … Continue reading →

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Shoulder to Shoulder

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Mary Beth Frezon

to remind us of the brave women of the Suffragettes/Suffragists, both in the UK and the USA. It is also dedicated to the women millworkers of Bridport, Dorset, who came out on strike for better pay/conditions in 1912 and marched through the small town singing suffragette songs, including "The March of the Women Continue reading →

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