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avadToday, by the grey light of the window, I finished reading 'Yonnondio: From the Thirties' by Tillie Olsen. Couldn't put it down. A family's struggle through The Great Depression......told so amazingly..it must be read, not described. To try to imagine the suffering... that was and IS existence for so many. The trying and Trying, the exhaustion. Again, maybe I read these things to remember, to remind myself of all the opportunities I have. The wealth that is my life. And that I AM in a position to help others who Don't have those opportunities. To play a part in helping to make changes where they need to be made, so that people can have the freedoms that are so basic and human, clean water, an education, hope.
Before this book, I read Across the Wire:Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border by Luis Alberto Urrea. I had started reading the sample pages on Amazon and got so engrossed that I ordered it used.
Devastating. Just true. Showing you conditions you wish didn't exist, that noone should have to live in.This goes on. Children are growing up in environments we cannot imagine, with no hope. And people moan the 'immigrants taking our jobs'. What IS it that makes such an Us and Them. How can anyone resent the human desire to make a better life, to feed their children and families, to be safe, etc.
*sigh*
Anyway, luckily today was a day I went to the gallery and was surprised by not one but Two checks! A small older piece also sold and she hadn't told me before!:)! So coming home, at night, I logged onto the Peace Corps site and finally made another donation. 10% of the larger artwork sale went to the Sheouba School Construction Project, which I had mentioned has been at a depressing standstill, and 10% of the smaller artwork sale I donated to a Small-Scale Womens Project in Micronesia towards the purchase of sewing machines.
Crunching my figures and my personal bills. As I thought, these checks JUST cover my incoming bills for this month. Weird life tests of faith, eh.
The gallery owner also told me that someone was possibly interested in buying Puja. (!)But we'll have to see.
*exhale*. patience. focus on work, on heart, on can do.
Before this book, I read Across the Wire:Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border by Luis Alberto Urrea. I had started reading the sample pages on Amazon and got so engrossed that I ordered it used.
Devastating. Just true. Showing you conditions you wish didn't exist, that noone should have to live in.This goes on. Children are growing up in environments we cannot imagine, with no hope. And people moan the 'immigrants taking our jobs'. What IS it that makes such an Us and Them. How can anyone resent the human desire to make a better life, to feed their children and families, to be safe, etc.
*sigh*
Anyway, luckily today was a day I went to the gallery and was surprised by not one but Two checks! A small older piece also sold and she hadn't told me before!:)! So coming home, at night, I logged onto the Peace Corps site and finally made another donation. 10% of the larger artwork sale went to the Sheouba School Construction Project, which I had mentioned has been at a depressing standstill, and 10% of the smaller artwork sale I donated to a Small-Scale Womens Project in Micronesia towards the purchase of sewing machines.
Crunching my figures and my personal bills. As I thought, these checks JUST cover my incoming bills for this month. Weird life tests of faith, eh.
The gallery owner also told me that someone was possibly interested in buying Puja. (!)But we'll have to see.
*exhale*. patience. focus on work, on heart, on can do.
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Date: 2004-06-17 09:59 pm (UTC)Pier 10 will need to run on minimal hardware.
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Date: 2004-06-18 03:08 pm (UTC)Thanks for all the book recommendations!
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Date: 2004-06-18 05:14 pm (UTC)Material World (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0871564300/qid=1087604029/sr=ka-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-9511718-3816023) is still one of the best books ever for reminding me of how much we have in comparison to other places in the world. That one I really recommend, too.
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Date: 2004-06-18 05:30 pm (UTC)Everything you say is true, and even though I am majorly broke I know I have more than most; I think I'm suffering from some weird effects of being around people who have waaaay ttoo much. While I'm trying to figure out how to get money together for a tooth extraction, my co-workers are buying $600 television sets. And THEN I think of those who have nothing, and it peeves me all the more!
I guess I simply suffer from Bad Attitude Syndrome. :(