you got all my pictures.
now it's time for yours.
email/skype/scan your photos to me so that i can upload them...
please!
call me if you need, i will talk you through the (oh so simple) process.
27 January 2011
goodbye, julie
thank you for letting us spend the new year with you.
you have regenerated our spirits
and filled our bellies.
xoxoxoxox
L and S
look what i found
christmas: L to R: Chenners (Mookin-Tookin to some), Aunt Rikki, Beth, Lindsay, and Lauren
ani difranco makes me a better mum
ani d. came to glasgow last week. (thursday, 20.01.11). it was funny, because even she didn't know she was touring again. as she put it, "i thought i had retired. i was at home, doing the Mom-thing, and then these dates came up and here i am."
fortuitously, there is a tiny contingency of really fucking cool mums that live here (and happen to be very close friends of mine) -- shout out to Ashley and Katja from the Brigade -- and the three of us left the huh-huh-husbands (joke courtesy of ani) at home for an evening of enlightenment.
how long has it been since you've seen ms difranco perform? because it has been years since i've been stateside, and i know i've missed countless opportunities to catch the road-dog in her tracks. but this was oh, so very most definitely worth the wait.
ani performed alone onstage the whole time (save for a hard working guitar tuner in the eaves and a very kind sound man in the wings), gave us a good smattering of some of our very favourites from her vast oeuvre of songs... and then hit us with some pretty fucking amazing new work. for someone who is retired, she certainly works hard.
but what really hit me was the chat between songs. that's what i always liked best about ani. she'll play a brilliant set, but she'll give seriously good chat in between. so she's all about bringing up her girl in the most articulate way possible; admits to not being perfect, and is still learning how not to obsess over her own image while projecting the feeling of acceptance onto her offspring... she is still dedicated to being an activist and talking about the things that matter - a lot of her new material is about all the shit going down in new orleans (ani moved there just before katrina hit, if you didn't know... i didn't), it is also, as ever, about women's rights, children's rights, and the rights of midwives. not to bog us all down with the seriousness of such issues, though, she also brought up the fact that Iggy Pop is now doing car insurance commercials in the UK -- as if the UK was so far removed from the US that NO ONE would ever find out... and she's taking the clip back with her to use against him. ha!
anyway, sometimes concerts give you something unexpected that you didn't know you really needed. and this was one of those times. and i came away wanting to be better for lilah, which right now means that i need to be more honest and more generous with myself. so that she can see how important self expression is to everybody. and see it as an extension of my love for her.
8 January 2011
re: christmas
we had a lovely time in california,
however,
our camera has disappeared and we are in desperate need of all your photographs in order to update our blog to the best of our ability.
so... any photos you have of our trip to CA this past 2010/11, forward them on to either
fairease13@hotmail.com
or
lauren.magnuson.gerig@gmail.com
and you'll see our wee family's adventures appear before your eyes...
love and kisses
and a healthy and happy 2011 to everyone
lilah, lauren, steven, and tia
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