Hands Off! #Sunday Salon
Happy Sunday! Sunday Salon is hosted by Deb at ReaderBuzz. Check out her post and the links to see what other bloggers have been up to in the last week.
How’s the weather?
So much rain. We expect some major flooding on one of our larger tributaries to the Mississippi River. Fortunately, it looks like the crest will happen on Sunday, which will reduce the impact on traffic flow.
What are you reading?
I’m reading our next book club selection. Our book club specializes in books about race in America. At first glance, a book called The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration might not look like a book about race. But if you know anything beyond the white-washed history that many of us were taught in school, you’ll know which communities get levees and which ones get bought out and destroyed.
What are you watching?
We started Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light on PBS. It’s the second season, based on Hilary Mantel’s books. We’re learning about the later years of Thomas Cromwell’s life after Anne Boleyn was beheaded.
What are you doing?
I went to my usual Black Lives Matter vigil this morning and then stopped by one of several large Hands Off! protests in our region. The protest was from 11am to 2pm, which is a long time to stand in the rain.
Apparently, there were over 1500 people lined along Manchester Road, one of the main thoroughfares in St. Louis County. I saw photos and video that make me believe that number. By the time I got there, it had dwindled to a few hundred hardy souls. I felt like I was part of the relief crew. We kept it going until the official end time.
Did you protest today?
Speaking of activism, that’s my theme for this year’s A to Z Challenge. Here are the first handful of posts: