Sun Rise

I've been making Sunrises since a friend in another state asked for a sunny God's eye, for hope. (Did I already say? Besides everything else, one of her former students had been killed in December's mass shooting at Brown U.)

I'm sending her this one.

I don't usually add tassels. 
At first because I didn't want to spend the time, since I was making so many for the first fence installation.
Do you like them?

I've been wondering about weaving yarn into the fence where I hang the eyes--the side facing the busy street...
A local yarn-bomb artist, HOTTEA (www.instagram.com/hotxtea), has woven in his signature font in bright yellow-green yarn on the chain link fence of a major intersection:

RENEE NICOLE GOOD. 

I was thinking of weaving in yarn,

 God Is Watching. 
The phrase is both a comfort and a threat, depending on what you're doing...
It also fits the neighborhood:
many (most?) people under direct threat are Catholic & Muslim (same God).

And it goes along with the vibe of people saying to ICE agents things like, 
"See you at Nuremberg". 
(Such good timing that that movie about Göring on trial recently came about.)
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My neighborhood association held an open meeting this past weekend for neighbors to coordinate action plans and other responses to ICE. 

I went to Needlework instead, but I was happy to get their resource list on email today. 

I want to make a new sign to join street corner demonstrations in my neighborhood. 
Since Trump's inauguration last year, people have been signing on different busy corners during rush hour. Now another site has been added--a pedestrian bridge over the highway.

"God" would not fit as well in this mostly Anglo white, middle-class neighborhood.
Maybe Karma Bites Back.

Or, less threatening, because karma is everything, not just the unloving acts.
Karma Doesn't Miss.

KARMA .   
…WAIT FOR IT.

Or something. Short is best.
I will ponder...
(Ideas welcome.)
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I mentioned the busy street by the store. 
It's not so busy now--many immigrant-run store fronts are dark as either workers or customers are at risk, and stay home.

The thrift store's business is down 50%.
Not good. 
(ICE has not descended on us ...yet.)
How is this going to play out if they stay very long???

It's been extremely cold here lately--well below freezing. When it warms up to above 32ºF, I will go make God's eyes at the Whipple Federal Building. 
There is an ongoing protest there. 

People warn you to come prepared with mask, goggles, and a plan in case you're arrested. ICE isn't supposed to use tear gas and pepper spray anymore, but who believes they won't?

My friend KG said she'd like to go with me--she could bring camping chairs! 
I'll have to check if that's legal--I never see people sitting. Is it obstruction of the sidewalk or something? 

So, just brief this morning...
Off to work now.

Keep your hearts up, wherever you are!

PS. Update 

At the bus stop, on my way to work