Appropriate again on so many levels - the human and entourage in the oval office, senate majority leader and senate, police forces, protesters, and all of us fighting for freedom, equality, and justice.
#Say Her Name - Breonna Taylor
We must remember this woman. We must include and come to terms with the systematic inequality of and injustices towards women too.
In this first article what stands out to me is “In the weeks immediately after Taylor died, her case didn’t receive much news media and political attention, falling in line with a longstanding pattern in which police brutality against black women is rendered invisible and “I had just been following the story about police brutality and about George Floyd, and her name stopped coming up,” Young said. “I was really frustrated to see her be erased in real time.”
In the second article what stands out is this quote by Andrea Ritchie, “We’re not trying to compete with Floyd’s story, we’re trying to complete the story.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/birthday-breonna-taylor-black-lives-matter.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/us/breonna-taylor-black-lives-matter-women.html
Daddy Saved The World
And was forced to sacrifice his life, babygirl!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CA9K06mF88W/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again
Untitled
Similar to not knowing what to call the time we are in, this piece is a match.
Instagram Post - Vanessa Bryant
A few days ago, in reflecting on our macrocosm, capped off by the vile behavior and nature of the human being in the oval office, I was wondering how on earth all the social ills will be corrected. Thoughts immediately turned to the heart and family as the microcosm from which everything emanates. I believe what is being expressed on such a large scale is the sum total of teachings, unresolved wounding and lack of compassion in the heart of individuals and families. Mine included with sisterhood and marital dynamics involving jealousy, hatred, racism, sexism, injustice, dominance and control. Because I could not subscribe to or, despite great effort, correct the inherent “systems”, I removed myself from both to freely work on my own heart and actions.
With that, in my opinion, this post is perfectly timed and, indeed, one hundred percent correct!
Compassion
The gist of the compassion cultivation training I took at Stanford is that every human being on this planet wants to feel happy and free from suffering. The textbook A Fearless Heart - How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives is a good one.
Dear Dancer
Interconnectedness through dancing and spoken word/poetry.
Heavy Cascade
With our current affairs and the glaring reality, danger, and uncertainty, it really feels like this again. It also feels though, just as in this image, like there is movement. And, within that is great possibility.
Creative Catalysts 3 - 2015 - Prodromal Oops
Now a different class a couple of years later and another opportunity to randomly collect words from periodicals. They are foolishness, weeping, inconspicuous, framework, voice, parameters, face, reappearance, chattering, connection. The assignment was to form a poem and/or story. (Four years later the art piece emerged.)
Truth be told
A beautiful, innocent child
Smothered in a framework of unspoken and spoken expectations
Innocent no more
He grapples with untethering from the confines of the parameters
The racing of his thoughts and chattering voice
Quickly yielding to a weeping face and aching heart
Not surprising
The manic reappearance and inconspicuous connection
Ahh, the foolishness of a parent
Creative Catalysts - 3 Cont'd
In the beginning an absurd choice; Into the fire; The eyeopener; Exposure and candor; Courage; Restore sanity. Cursive is with sticks dipped in acrylic ink per catalyst 1.
In The Beginning 3:
