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It Isn't All That We Do

from It Isn't All That We Do by No Strings

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Letter by Harriette Wagner
Music by tulkinghorn + a Spanish folk song

(image by Valentina Harper + Harriette Wagner)

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November 1987

In mourning the American lives lost in Vietnam (as names etched on the Moving Wall, recently viewed in Fresno), Eli Setencich, on November 2, referred to Jim Doyle's regretting the loss of the cure for cancer and the great book which might have come from any of the young men who died in that dreadful war. At the same time Mr. Doyle grieved for the president to whom one of the young women killed might have given birth.

Well, how about a little consciousness-raising? Might we not dwell on the loss of the woman who would have ended cancer or written the great American novel? May we not sorrow for the president, lost to us forever, who will never be fathered by one of those men?

Here in the late twentieth century women are finally finding belated acceptance as something other than walking wombs. More and more of us are demanding recognition of our talents, not merely our biological ability to incubate males who are then to venture forth doing the really important work of the world.

Making babies is worthwhile and satisfying for most women, but we don't all do it and it isn't all that we do.

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from It Isn't All That We Do, released December 13, 2019

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No Strings is a Mother/Son duo recording a wide variety of original songs, jazz standards, rock/pop/country/folk songs + spoken word presentations.

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