It’s COVID times, you just finished a series of collages that you want to share as a full unit, and you have a few white walls. What do you do? Put on your own at home, asynchronous, a little silly gallery show!
Well, that’s what I did, at least. Check out the Blob Party, where I introduced the collages I have been working on since Spring 2020.
The Blob Party is a great event for introverts! ;)
I made a very large, very colorful collage recently. I decided I wanted to name it. But I could NOT come up with a name, as hard as I tried. So, I stopped trying for a bit.
This week as the election happened, the results started coming in, I got more and more optimistic about a return to leaders we can be proud of….my brain also started circling in on a name.
Today, when the results were called, I finally had it:
Kamala wins (and Joe, too)!
This election doesn’t solve all our problems, but it sure is good news. Four years ago, when my international friends checked in, feeling compelled to share their disappointment with their personal connection to the US, I felt shameful. Today, they checked in again with congratulations and while I can’t quite express pride in the situation, I certainly feel hope.
I accidentally made a pun today.
We were talking about the context of this recent Supreme Court appointment process—a last-minute attempt to hang on to power —as the piece that is so heart wrenching. “It’s just so ruthless in this context,” I said. Ah! What did I just say? Well, it is. Ruthless Times. A Ruthless Supreme Court.
I’m not looking forward to being in Ruthless times. I’m concerned about what a Ruthless Supreme Court will do, and I really can’t predict how exactly this will impact our laws moving forward. But I do know our new ruthless Supreme Court is missing one staunch advocate for human rights. It is missing a justice who saw the injustices in our system—and the way the law could be interpreted to remedy them—instead of hiding behind the text and claiming powerlessness.
On a related note, I went in search of some Constitutional-political commentary today from a law professor whose perspective I always appreciate (who just so happened to clerk for Justice Ginsburg). Instead of commentary, I got something that is probably more valuable: a reminder to be especially conscious of being kind right now. So, we may be in the midst of ruthless times in the political sphere, but we don’t have to be that way on a personal level. That’s what I’m thinking about today.
And I still love this RBG collage so so much.
