I am the crazy dancing man.

5/3/2012

I will pick some flowers this morning and take them to the administrative assistant who raised her voice at me.

She is the one who answers the phone when people call about me and my protest sign.

She is the one who has to face people who walk in to talk about me and my protest sign.

She is the one who thought up the idea to change the reader board to show "facts" about the military/college numbers that turned out to be non-factual.

She has no power to change the school policy so she is stuck.

No matter how she feels about me or the military or politics or the weather - she is the sitting duck.

That must be miserable.

I will offer her a sincere apology because I raised my voice at
her this week.
That was wrong of me.
I am a better person than that.

This video shows how I feel each day when I protest in front of the the small rural school district.

I am happy to be there every morning.

Especially today.

I feel great today.

I know that a second person will show up and dance with me.
I just know it.
And then, how fun that will be, eh?
So until then, I am the happy sign-toting, smiling waving mom.

Hey hey hey
I am unstoppable.
Hey hey hey.

7 Comments

thomas link

5/3/2012 19:00:11

You are awesome. Totally.

Rodney Wimberly, Sr link

5/5/2012 14:51:31

You are not alone! I stand with you every morning you are standing in front of my grandchidren's school; I am not physically there, I am in South Arkansas, but I am with you in spirit; You do not stand alone for as surely as you stand there, I stand with you!

barb smith

5/5/2012 17:30:12

Thanks Thomas and Rodney! I am glad you are here.

On my daily protest walk, I have a song I hum to keep me happy. It is Alice's Restaurant. I imagine the whole world IS Alice's Restaurant - and I CAN get ANYTHING I want.

So if you want to join me - you can just sing or hum along any school morning between 7:50am and 8:20am.

I know that I will effect change and it may well start a movement.

The Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement.

Rodney Wimberly, Sr link

5/6/2012 04:48:36

I am off the air by the time you begin your walk each morning, I am on from 6-8 AM Central time, but I will be sure and find Alice's Restaurant sometime Monday and begin to play cuts from it while I am on the air in support of The Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement.

“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.”~Etienne de la Boetie, “Discourse on Voluntary Servitude”, 1548

Rodney Wimberly, Sr link

5/9/2012 09:24:27

Hi Barb,

My editor may be contacting you. What you are doing will be the subject of my Memorial Day column.

Have a great day.

barb smith

5/10/2012 13:28:35

Sure, Rodney - that might be interesting. And fun!

Kathryn Jtineant

5/13/2012 00:48:04

Abraham Lincoln:
"It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest"

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