This is a small public service announcement!
I suspect a few of you have received, as I have, an email called Girls With Pearls.
The idea is that women (or anyone!) wishing to show solidarity with our new First Lady, Michelle Obama, is encouraged to wear pearls tomorrow, January 20th, Inauguration Day.
I'm not much of a pearl person, myself.
I certainly don't have the natural grace and style of Ms. Obama.
Regardless, I plan to pull out my strand of pearls, handed down to me by my (conservative Republican) grandmother, and wear them proudly!
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Incidentally, it was hard to find the provenance of this idea. The flier refers to an organization called "Camp Girlfriend" - but there is no web presence of such an organization.
According to the blog Women in Spiritual Expression, the organization (started by one Earnestine Shuemake) is planning to launch a web presence soon. You might say that the "Girls With Pearls" effort is their INAUGURAL event?