Common cause

This is especially for rushthatspeaks and gaudior , laid low by infections, and for that veteran marcher, the Fox. Yes, it was rousing and enspiriting. No, you didn't want to be standing on cold mud in a crowd for several hours.  sovay  , I hope that your reading went brilliantly.

I met up with my excellent friend C. and we found N. and R. (whose mother was Chip Delany's childhood friend, from so long ago that she calls him Sam), and their Raphaelesque cherub, who was revelling in mud, by witness of his trousers.

A very Cantabrigian crowd.























We met the cherub at the playground with the Viking ship, where all the infant veterans of marches towed their parents. Washington should be like this: busy and exploratory. Yes, there were small squabbles over who got to slide first, but the carousel kept turning.







Witness was borne.





In all the uproar, we couldn't find my dear friend B. (who gave me that glorious postcard of the ladies under the table with their teapot, chocolate, and books), but she texted us a picture of her sign:



This is our commonwealth.



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