Tuesday, after I had voted, I came down with Lyme Disease. The nation came down with worse. How we deal with the next four years, how we heal, remains to be seen; but I take comfort in art like this. While it proposes no grand solutions, it enables us to cherish even the waning of the year. We must each find ways within our spheres to live our ideals, to practice art, to love nature, to nurture one another even if it means continuing to go into the woods where there are deer ticks.
Picturing a World
Wan November
November 11, 2016
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Nov 12, 2016 6:56 AM EST
I hope your recovery is quick.
What a remarkable painting this is. He managed to paint trees that look individual, and yet, they are very close together to create amazing depth.
Protests over the election in NYC are big in Times Square and Union Square. I hope they let it go. The election is done. I would rather see election reform by replacing the use of the electoral college. Clinton won the popular vote but lost, just like Gore.
It seems people are so afraid of change that they rather have old jobs back, which are becoming obsolete, than try to learn something knew just because their ancestors worked in the mines from one generation to the next. I don't see how Trump can give them back these jobs.
He allows oil, gas and coal lobbyists to be involved, and if he takes the US out of the Paris climate change accord, the backlash against this will be severe.
While I'm grateful for the continued improvement of myself as a dancer, which takes me away from so much negativity in the news, finding my true dance partner has been difficult to say the least.
My teacher only offers pro/am, which means I must pay him to dance with me along with my travel and entry fee costs. It's very expensive. Even becoming more consistently excellent, he will never offer me a pro partnership because he sees me as a student with less experience.
As elusive as it is to create a work of fiction, I hope working on your current book brings with it a focus more intense and fulfilling to take you into an elevated and uplifting place in consciousness away from outside world issues.
- Patricia Franzino