Forth

I make positive protest posters. They say what I believe, what I want, rather than what I’m against. One of my signs was “Freedom from Fear,” copyright Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1941. I am for freedom, but not the freedom libertarians talk about, which is no freedom at all, the freedom to die alone and miserable […]

What is the Whale

We were given square canvases and teal and purple and white paint. I found the teal and the purple horrible. The teacher was going to guide people to paint a dandelion with its winged wishing seeds in the wind. We did not have to paint that. It took me a while to figure I wanted […]

The Office

When I worked downtown at my dad’s office, I saw my dad’s secret life. I saw that the people who worked for him thought he was fair, and solid, and a little crazy, all of which I knew was true. I was sixteen, and I did everything I could to show them I was a […]

Have Seen, Will See

America, June 2017, in the nave of the church from 1702, a mural of the gospel being preached to successive groups: gentiles, who look suspiciously white, Asians (an Indian woman, a Japanese woman), Africans with breasts in the fresh air, and finally Native Americans, who wear their babies on their backs and cover their breasts. […]