Leonieke<p>I have sent or handed out this year's holiday cards, so I can finally share the poem I had printed on the front of these folded cards.</p><p>A beautifully poignant poem by Margaret Atwoord:</p><p>We hear nothing these days<br>from the ones in power</p><p>Why talk when you are a shoulder<br>or a vault</p><p>Why talk when you are<br>helmeted with numbers</p><p>Fists have many forms;<br>a fist knows what it can do</p><p>without the nuisance of speaking:<br>it grabs and smashes.</p><p>From the inside or under<br>words gush like toothpaste.</p><p>Language, the fist<br>proclaims by squeezing,<br>is for the weak only.</p><p><a href="https://vitaulium.nl/blog/2024/2024-12-19-holiday-cards/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vitaulium.nl/blog/2024/2024-12</span><span class="invisible">-19-holiday-cards/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.fenslaw.nl/tags/HolidayProject2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HolidayProject2024</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.fenslaw.nl/tags/MargaretAtwood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MargaretAtwood</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.fenslaw.nl/tags/LeoniekeBorduurt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeoniekeBorduurt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.fenslaw.nl/tags/borduren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>borduren</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.fenslaw.nl/tags/PointDeCroix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PointDeCroix</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.fenslaw.nl/tags/CrossStitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrossStitch</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.fenslaw.nl/tags/embroidery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>embroidery</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.fenslaw.nl/tags/DMC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DMC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.fenslaw.nl/tags/LTA24" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LTA24</span></a></p>