Heartstrings

Heartstrings's Journal

June 4, 2020

Pete Souza photographs State St, Madison WI

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBA6A3KlGlo/?igshid=18tgo4kmbuzau

June 4, 2020

Best protest sign I've seen so far....💗

And what a beautiful little girl! ❤️

June 3, 2020

I WOULD SWING by Kelly Corrigan (via Facebook)

I WOULD SWING
by Kelly Corrigan

If you took my husband away from me
Just because, say, he had blue eyes
Or a hairline you found objectionable
Or maybe because you didn’t like the cyst
that waxes and wanes
On his back
I would not make a poster
Or write an op ed
I would buy a sledge hammer
I would swing it into plate glass
Until I could make you feel
As endangered and disposable
As I felt.

I would need you,
As all people do,
To feel how I felt.
I would need to see you sit up,
Pull yourself out of a dream
Into a worse reality,
Saying
Will my neck be broken next?
Will my true love be made still
Under the knee
Of a righteous man
Who has all the rights I don’t
And knows it?

If you screamed into your iPhone
That my husband and his heritage
As a European-American
was assaulting you
By suggesting your dog
Needed a leash in the park
That was all of ours
I would not be polite in my response
I would not find a lawyer
And wait patiently for an “authority”
To maybe side with me.

Physical madness, if you ask me,
Is the most natural and understandable reaction.
Unproductive, sure.
Counter productive, yes of course,
But natural and understandable.
I know this in my body and your body knows it too.
Put your blue eyed husband
Under the knee of a public “servant”
for nine minutes
and when his heart stops forever
you tell me if you reach for a magic marker,
your laptop
or a sledge hammer.

June 3, 2020

An iconic photo of the protests.....

A man stands with his child in front of the police during demonstrations Sunday in downtown Long Beach. Police pointed rubber bullet guns to get crowds to back away.
"This man stood with his child most of the time until the police started using concussive grenades but they never fired on him but did occasionally pointed their rubber bullet guns towards him."

Posted on Instagram, Photographer Richard Grant states “this is the most impactful picture I have ever taken.”
@richardgrant88

(“This is an uncropped photo with no color correction. I used a 24 -70mm lens at 70mm and f 3.5.”)

June 2, 2020

First off, it's 90 degrees and full sun here in Madison, WI...

Had plans to pick my daughter up and meet up with my son and his SO at a lake to let both dogs go swimming.....then this happened on my way to get her....

https://www.channel3000.com/westbound-lanes-on-beltline-at-john-nolen-drive-closed-due-to-report-of-protesters/

What a mess, cars were overheating, we had no idea what was causing the backup until Stoughton Road, where there were fully armed police officers with flares directing traffic off the Beltline.i had my window open and told the officers to “Stay safe,” they thanked me! Our plans were squashed! I came home. Guess the lanes are open now but I’m staying away! I can only hope tonight isn’t another night of chaos. Predicted thunderstorms could be our saving grave.

Enough! Stop! We don’t need the military! We need the other 3 LEO in custody!!!

June 2, 2020