COMMUNITY

enmasse - 13.5"x8.5" charcoal and graphite on sketch paper

THOUGHT: When humans work together.... when they sing in harmony, it's a beautiful thing.

When humans scream together, it can be almost intolerable to hear that much pain at once.

Song, or scream.... is effective communication.

On most days, I'd prefer to hear the beautiful song of harmonizing voices, but sometimes, too much harmony can also become milquetoast or white noise. Even though I always strive to contribute towards an ideal utopia where we respect others where we all have some quality or something to contribute and of course, tons left over to share, I am acutely aware that the world also contains evil... hungry wolves that may see others as a tasty meal rather than a fellow harmonizer, and it pays a dividend to have the ability to scream louder than the harmonizers to get attention.

PRAYER: May the wolf respect you enough to pass you by, and may the harmonizers come to your aid if you must scream

"Come on, people now-Smile on your brother-Everybody get together-Try to love one another right now"

- Youngbloods - Get Together

"And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL, " and he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."

- Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant

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