Have you been making baby hats for Save the Children’s Knit One, Save One campaign? I have! Well, crocheting them, actually. Jay has knitted a few, too, when he’s been home to knit. Here are some of the hats we’ve made:
Grace seems to be choosing a hat for herself, doesn’t she?
This one is my favorite so far:
There is still plenty of time to make baby hats! You can read my original blog post about the campaign and visit the Save the Children website for the activity kit! Make a hat, save a baby.
Is it crazy that I would contemplate spending $2,500 for a concert ticket but refuse to part with my sixteen year old Miata? Yeah, that’s what I thought. I don’t care-- I’m all about the experience and what a freakin’ awesome experience this would be:
The Piano Man and the Boss are putting on a show for Obama.
Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen will do a benefit concert for Senator Barack Obama’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee next month at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on Oct. 16.
(found via The Caucus, The New York Times Political Blog and Twitter’s Election 2008 page)
Tickets are reported to start at $500 for balcony seating and go up to $2,500 for premiere seating and $10,000 for lounge seating. But when I go to the Barack Obama contribution page, there isn’t a button for the $500 tickets. I suppose they must have already sold out. Not that I would spend that kind of money for concert tickets.
Ah, who am I kidding? I would. In a heartbeat.
$2,500 is a little harder to justify, though. Even if Barack is going to make an appearance.
It’s that time of year again!
Save the Children’s Knit One, Save One campaign has begun.
Jay and I participated in the Caps to the Capital campaign in 2006. I think we made around thirty baby caps between us. His efforts were a bit more successful than mine, as some of you may recall. But the end result was a box of baby caps bound for babies in need:
The deadline for mailing caps this year is December 31. The Knit One, Save One Action Kit includes four knitted and two crocheted cap patterns. It’s a perfect activity for those chilly autumn nights on the couch, watching television. It takes about an hour to two hours for me to crochet a baby hat-- and I’m slow. Oh, and there are some seriously cute pictures of baby hats on the website if you need more inspiration.
Knit a hat, save a baby and pass the message along.
Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon made history - again - at 5:07 p.m. Monday when they were declared “spouses for life.”
At that moment, standing next to each other in the mayor’s office in San Francisco City Hall in front of cheering friends and relatives, the couple of 55 years became the first same-sex newlyweds in San Francisco and among the first in California under a new right bestowed by the state Supreme Court.
(Read the rest of the article here.)
They’ve been together fifty-five years. The moral of this story? Don’t give up on what you want and deserve, even if it takes five decades to get it. Never give up.
Jay sent me a terrific New York Times article about guerrilla gardening in London:
Just after sunset on one of the first mild nights of spring, Richard Reynolds parked his hatchback near a traffic circle in the London neighborhood of Hoxton. Tied to his roof were a potted honeysuckle and a dozen box hedge plants, spilling out of garbage bags. Trays of bright white Paris daisies filled the trunk, and cartons of variegated ivy were wedged in the passenger seat. Hipsters drank indifferently outside a nearby pub.
What is guerrilla gardening, you ask?
Reynolds defines guerrilla gardening as “the cultivation of someone else’s land without permission.” He didn’t invent the term or the tactic but has become, as he puts it, “a self-appointed publicist for the movement” and the breadth of impulses and ideologies behind it.
Last week he published a book, On Guerrilla Gardening. It’s a political history of people growing things where they shouldn’t — from Honduran squatters to the artists and students he credits with originating the term “guerrilla gardening” in New York City in the early ’70s. During the city’s financial crisis, the self-styled Green Guerillas began cultivating derelict lots around the Lower East Side, either by clipping barbed wire fences or chucking “seed bombs” over them — Christmas ornaments or condoms filled with tomato seeds, water and fertilizer. After early confrontations, the city ultimately gave in and legitimized many of their plots into one of the country’s first community-garden programs, staking a claim for green space before gentrification vaulted the value of all that abandoned land.
What a fabulous, amazing idea! Perfect for us insomniacs, too. Just hose me down with Deep Woods Off and point me toward the nearest plot of neglected land..
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