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Personally, I had wanted to go on a media news fast on Election Day, but my kids are political news junkies (at ages 12 and 17!) ... and I had a feeling they would need an emotional chaperone through that evening; serves me right for raising social justice peaceniks.
When things started to tank around 10:45pm / 11pm Toronto-time I made them turn off the TV. The next morning, I woke up and checked my device for the results and felt the world drop from beneath me.1st thought: expletive expletive expletive.2nd thought : what am I going to tell my children?
#pussyhatproject.com I wanted to curl up and scream... but d*mn it. .. I am a parent and had to 'get my adult on' and be calm, collective and reassuring.
Parenting sucks.My 17 year old daughter woke up before I got upstairs. I didn't have to tell her. I heard her weeping. She let me hug her... and she never lets me hug her these days. I didn't end up telling my 12 year old son. The daughter pushed past me and crawled into bed with him. She broke the news.
Like I said, we are Canadian.
This should matter less to us.
But it doesn't. American friends: we are your neighbours. We care about you. We care about the world.
One friend suggested I pick up my yarn and sticks and embark on a knit campaign much like I did back in the day of Rob Ford. True, Ford was my 'muse' (see my blog posts from December 2011 - 2013), but the upcoming Trump Era feels darker... far more sinister and menacing.
Then I read about The Women's March on Washington https://www.womensmarch.com and The Pussyhat Project https://www.pussyhatproject.com and then beautiful serendipity struck. I discovered that a gym friend is a member of Democrats Abroad and is heading to D.C. soon for the January 21st March on Washington. Lovely Julie was thrilled that I offered to make her a hat. What she does not know yet is I made two. One for her friend as well.
I am not thrilled about inauguration day but I feel empowered about the day after!
Sending love (and a couple of hats) from North of the Border
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