Wounded

I was inspired by one of my wonderful new Pantsuit Nation friends to create a companion piece to my painting, "Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction". So I created a piece reflecting my experience and the experience of many others since the election. I started by scribing my thoughts about the election results, my sadness and my hopes. I crumpled the sheets of paper and lit parts of it on fire. I set those thoughts free to go wherever they needed to go. The remaining bits of paper became the background of my piece. I painted the burned holes red to reflect the wounding that so, so many have felt, their safety and well being now feeling threatened.

I'm thankful that I'm surrounded by so many people who, while acknowledging the negative direction that this election may represent, also see the positive that is coming from it as well. The stirring of activism, the connecting with strangers that might not have ever happened otherwise.

I'm going to have prints of this painting available here and will donate $5 per sale to the ACLU. The original may be purchased at the link below the picture.

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2020

So I was a Bernie girl WAY before I was a Hillary girl. And now that the election is over, I'm back to being a Bernie girl in a HUGE way. I collaborated with a wonderful high school friend of mine, Conrad Gonzalez, to create these shirts. We hope that they will be part of the social machine that brings Bernie back as a candidate in 2020.

If you're interested, we've got shirts for men and women (children and baby sizes coming soon)...and they're 30% off through Sunday if you use the code "LOVEZGIFTS50". Here's the link to our shop: http://www.zazzle.com/politipro

And here are photos of our designs. I'm always passionate about my art, but it was pure delight and did my heart such good to help bring these into reality.

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The Crowd

The school where I work was crowded today.  Super CROWDED!  Especially for me as my classroom is the closest one to all of the voting hoopla.  And while it was a tad troublesome to get in and out of my classroom, for my parents to drop off and pick up their children, and for us to take our students to and from where they needed to go during the day, it was simply FABULOUS to see the crowds.  For the entire day there was a long and simply delicious line.  All was peaceful.  All was efficient.  It was a beautiful thing.

That crowd was definitely Kali approved.

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