Status Updates From Las rosas de Orwell

“Things appeared from beyond the horizon, from beyond knowing, and knowing was an act of volition instead of part of everyday life.”

Orwell & his wife named their dog Marc to remind themselves they hadn’t read Marx…his life later wrote that they later read some Marx and disliked him so much that they couldn’t look the dog in the face

Lawrence Weschler 2005 essay “Vermeer in Bosnia”
“Human beings need reinforcement and refuge, that pleasure does not necessarily seduce us from the tasks at hand but can fortify us”

Roses as a symbol of pleasure, leisure, self-determination in contrast to many utilitarian ideologies that view things of pleasure/beauty as counter revolutionary and bourgeois

Rose Schneiderman roses represent “the right to live, not simply exist”

James Oppenheimer poem published in American Magazine in 1911
“As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our significantly bff their ancient song of Bread;
Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knee—
Yes it is Bread we fight for—but we fight for roses too”

Story of servant girl Maggie who went to women’s suffrage rally and came home and said what she liked best was about how “the women votin’ so’s everybody would have bread and flowers too”

Created logo “Bread for All, and Roses Too”