ToTD: Fran Lebowitz
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Thought of the Day
Take away a man’s actual sense of manhood–which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children–and you’ve got to give them something else. And they did.
This hideous religion that’s all over the country–these huge church-malls–that’s what substitutes for these lost towns. But that’s not a town. That’s a cult. A town is diverse, in a real way, not in this fake way we have now. A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A ‘community’ is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That’s just self-righteousness–incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic. People have become so rigid; their opinions seem to them like themselves. When that happens (and it has happened) people can’t change their minds. If you are identified by your opinions–if that is the very basis of yourself–how can you change your mind?
Fran Lebowitz, Ruminator Magazine interview with Susannah McNeely (August/September 2005)
Tags: community, Fran Lebowitz, opinions, religion
SBQ: Stitching habits?
Posted by Cyn | Filed under Blogging, Needlework, SBQ
This week’s Stitching Bloggers Question is:
Since you started blogging, have you noticed any difference in your stitching habits? Tell us about them.
Blogging hasn’t really changed my stitching habits, but I haven’t gotten to know a great many other stitching bloggers — yet 🙂
When that happens, though, I expect that it may have the same effect that subscribing to rec.crafts.textiles.needlework did back in 1995. I discovered Q-Snaps and Ott Lites and new techniques and fibers and fabrics! And there were designers who actually participated in the newsgroup!
I’d been stitching for over a decade then, but r.c.t.n. sparked a period of growth and renewal that has continued to this day. I’m excited about the new inspiration I’m sure I’ll find from reading the blogs of other stitchers!