tiny but not so tiny feet *
Jan. 7th, 2026 03:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwYes, ICE murdered someone in Minneapolis today by firing point blank into her face. It's important.
We are going to see the end of NATO if Trump (Miller?) has his way (call your senators).
But I'm thinking about Martha Washington's feet.
January 6th was George & Martha's wedding day. She was richer than he was and was showing off. She wore a top of the line pair of shoes with silver wire decorations all over them. I read two different descriptions of them today. One referred to her "tiny" feet. The curator of shoes (and possibly other stuff?) at Mount Vernon said that they are (yes, present tense - they were handed down all this time. She took them out of storage for the video) the equivalent of women's US current size 7 shoes. That's pretty close to average, not tiny. A discrepancy.
free-association, just because the lyrics include the phrase "neat little feet."
Got distracted on the way to embedding it, because youtube has taken to showing me speed chess videos from a couple of female youtubers. I'm not interested in chess, but I watch some of them anyway.
* when BTS first had a Tiny Desk concert on NPR, Kim Namjoon said it was a "tiny but not so tiny" concert. The recent videos in the office background have that phrase on poster.
We are going to see the end of NATO if Trump (Miller?) has his way (call your senators).
But I'm thinking about Martha Washington's feet.
January 6th was George & Martha's wedding day. She was richer than he was and was showing off. She wore a top of the line pair of shoes with silver wire decorations all over them. I read two different descriptions of them today. One referred to her "tiny" feet. The curator of shoes (and possibly other stuff?) at Mount Vernon said that they are (yes, present tense - they were handed down all this time. She took them out of storage for the video) the equivalent of women's US current size 7 shoes. That's pretty close to average, not tiny. A discrepancy.
free-association, just because the lyrics include the phrase "neat little feet."
Got distracted on the way to embedding it, because youtube has taken to showing me speed chess videos from a couple of female youtubers. I'm not interested in chess, but I watch some of them anyway.
* when BTS first had a Tiny Desk concert on NPR, Kim Namjoon said it was a "tiny but not so tiny" concert. The recent videos in the office background have that phrase on poster.
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