Ice on the trees

 I would like ice to stay on the trees and leave all American cities and towns. They are not law enforcement they are lawless thugs. Unmarked cars, army surplus clothes and masks. They have no training. I wonder if they are acute pups like the proud boys and other militia acting out a fantasy of power. When will our representatives in congress use their own power to stop the lawlessness. When e the wealthy business was that benefit from the rule of law.use their power to protect there employees and customers? The brave citizens in the twin cities are standing up up for all of us. The elected leaders need to follow their lead. The ice shoots must stand trial for the murders they have committed. We all bear witness to their crimes. 

It Is exhausting to live in an historic time. There is such turmoil. There has been an immorality to this past year that is beyond comprehension. There is a burden to my morning writing that is better personal wanders of a quiet life. My musings about my own artwork seem petty unimportant these days.

world stage

 What an embarrassment Trump is on the world stage. All should listen to Canada's Mark Carney he is wise and correct about the state of the world. I wonder id America and the regime of Trump is a cruel joke from the universe to maybe snap America out of its superior arrogance? I am not sure where to find hope anymore. Where will we be when the regime crashes the economy? How do the people right the ship when the elected officials fair to do their jobs. I have more questions and worries than answers and peace.

MLK DAY

 I wonder what dr.king would tell us about in his the state of the country. Did we learn nothing from his quest for civil rights. Is the class divide and wealth gap finally taking it pound of flesh? Might is not right. Wealth can not be power. At least that is not the world I want to live in. I am worn out Beth's assault of all the terrible things this regime is doing all at once. I never thought I would ever think of the US government as a regime but that is what it is now. Why are all of our representatives from both parties failing us? I have more questions than answers. I fear protests in Minnesota will lead to more violence. The ICE thugs have no moral boundaries. They are the combined forces of the KKK and white nationalists that were pushed down during the civil rights movement. ICE are not trained law enforcement. No trains police officer would behave like them. No police Department in the country would allow a deadly shooting to go investigated. No one is safe. How do we lead ourselves out of this darkness?

Sunday

Filling pages is all I can do

 The house is quiet, dogs are fed. Sunday morning. I am avoiding the news  l don't want to invite the Falling apart country in the tv room yet. It is heartbreaking to live through historic times. I am beyond ready for.the age of Trump destruction to end. I continue to wonder why they want to destroy the democracy. The wealth disparity is already so great trump and his puppet masters control the wealth. What kind of power do they search for now?          

How do we fight the destruction but still live within the constitution and the rule of law when they refuse to do so? Are no violent protests enough in the face of violence?  

Monday

 

I did not really want to live in such interesting and increasingly dark times. I added a drawing to this post just to remind myself that I can create some calm places. The Trump regime is breaking the country and the world apart. I can not begin to understand why. There appears to be no other goal but destruction. It is pointless to ask why because I am not sure I would understand. This is a country I no longer recognize. The cruelty of this regime on every front is unamerican, and anti- major religious practice. The leaders of the regime completely disregard the voices of the people, this is a government by and for the people. Who would have ever believed the protests would go unheeded. 

2026 begins

 It has been over a year since I was here. What a year. It has been a year of tragedy and loss. I live in a country I no longer recognize. I am overwhelmed by to cruelty and destruction of our country. Yesterday a person was killed by ICE. What county are we living in when a person is killed for protecting her community? The masked men in sketchy "uniforms" look like people found in a dive bar on a Thursday afternoon whining in their beer about how the world has done wrong by them. They were hired to visit cruelty on other and maybe move themselves up from the perceived bottom rung they are on.

I had made this blog long ago to talk about art but that seems far in the past. Now all I see is loss of kindness and respect. Hope is hard to come by with the unrelenting assault of cruelty and destruction.

Ball point pen...

 I write here so little and I am sure this page is viewed just as little but here I am anyway. I was thinking an

Bout my drawings. These last few pages I have return to ball point pen. I am using bid pen refills inside pens I have made from wood. The drawings are mostly a combination of spirograph and stencils. I look back to what is always loved to make as a kid. Art or not. Not art that will make me wealthy or an internet star, ( which seems to be what many people desire).  i don't think I ever Left the world of op art.