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[ChiciB1]

79. ABSOLUTELY & TRULY INSPIRING!

I've been a member of DU since 2004 and have read thousands of your posts. THIS I never knew of. BRAVO!!! You're not only extremely informed intellectually, you're fantastically talented.

I bookmarked your website to refer to. From what I understand you don't sell your art, am I correct?

I rarely post here, or anywhere anymore as I've found that I generally come away more and more depressed as time goes by. If there are my type of "liberals" around anymore, we are small in number and mostly ignored. As a BOOMER I DO understand that times change and we must change with it, but the change I see more and more of fills me with fear.

I have tried so very hard for so many years to do my duty as a citizen involving myself in many, many causes. But these days as my income dwindles, I get email after email to DONATE to hundreds of "progressive-somewhat liberal" causes which I'm unable to help with. A notion crosses my mind that if ALL of these groups would cobble together some real change could be made, but as it is more and more groups pop up and cohesion seems less.

I'm now in my middle 60's and never thought I would have days in my life that I say "I'm kind of glad that my time here is shorter." Not a very optimistic quote for sure, but does cross my mind. I have a grandson who graduated from FSU and we often talk. We are VERY VERY close and I enjoy talking with him about what he sees ahead for him and his generation. It is EYE OPENING to be sure. He's a progressive in a completely different way. He cares, is opposed to all the obstruction he sees, but he also says he "needs" to focus on HIS goals just to survive.

There is a huge gap between my generation and his. My caring and his caring are on an absolutely different plateau. The propeller props are moving at an ever more faster pace, where there seems to be so little time to digest something before you have to move on to the next.

What I'm going to say next IS NOT racist in any way and I fervently hope that what I say is understood. I grew up at a time when we fought for civil rights (al la Martin Luther King) which I was active with. I was raised as an army brat until I left home & because of Viet Nam wanted nothing more to do with military life. In the recesses of my mind, and I haven't researched this book in any way, but I recall one that was titled "Little Black Sambo!" A book that has never completely faded from my memory, but one that too many people found acceptable to read to their kids. Innocent at the time, I now view it with disgust.

But in the book, as I recall it, there was a tiger running around the tree chasing after a little black boy, they go faster and faster until somehow butter is made. What was the message? But that's is how I NOW see things happening all over the world. Running around faster and faster, but to what end??

Why your pictures prompted me to go on like this I can't say, but deep down they touch a nerve of where I have lived. I now see in your art, what I feel in my heart. WHERE ARE WE GOING?

Thank you for sharing. And forgive the reference above, I mean NO malice. If anyone remembers the book, I could be wrong about the whole thing. Don't think I can Google it, but never tried.