** Won't you please share the joy of WYFP by recommending?
WYFP is our community's Saturday evening gathering to talk about our problems, empathize with one another, and perhaps share advice. Everyone and all sorts of troubles are welcome. May we find peace and healing here. :-)
Spent the day at Fighting Bob Fest at the Baraboo, Wisconsin County Fairgrounds, with fellow kossacks EconAtheist and OrangeClouds. This is a great annual event, a progressive "chautauqua" with excellent speakers and a relaxed, folksy atmosphere. It was unseasonably nippy, but it didn't rain on us. The highlights, to me, were the speeches by 96 year old Doris "Granny D" Haddock and independent journalist Amy Goodman--both of them awesomely strong, brilliant, passionate, prophetic women. Granny D's speech was a rare and stirring masterpiece of rhetoric by a woman weakening in body but clearly not in any other way. Amy's was... well, you probably know she's pretty intense--she makes you contemplate the stark suffering there is in the world. It's a challenge to do something about it.
Who's inspired you lately? What's humbled you and made you sit back and think? What suffering are you present to today?
What's your effing problem?
P.S. for Madison Wisconsin kossacks: there will be a kossack meetup here on Wednesday at 6:30 PM for dinner at the Old Fashioned on Capitol Square on Pinckney. There will be several of us there including cskendrick who is in the process of moving to Madison. If you think you can come, it would be good to RSVP to OrangeClouds so she can make a reservation at the resturant for the approximately correct number of people.