I don’t know if I could ever paint in this style, but I do like the piece depicted quite a lot. Take another stab at it before you discard it i’d say.

He couldn’t have…the overfilled diaper would be in the way.

Yes. I was very disappointed to discover this about Carter.

Indeed, and stopping it by directly intervening and ordering his crew that If the Americans fired on any more women and kids, that they should return fire on their fellow Americans. If in a difficult situation, I ask myself “what would Hugh Thompson do? A personal hero of mine.

“Shooting an Elephant”, an essay, is essential reading for anyone wishing to truly understand colonialism…there is a very good reading of it on youtube. Briefly:the hold of a colonial power over the colonized people is often hard, even violent, yet brittle.

Glad my uncle Floyd, 10th Armored Division, 1944-45 is not around to see it.

”And what rough beast, its hour come
round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be
Born?”
That’s where we are, but, there is an old Buddhist sutra that gives me comfort, which I will share if you like.

Yeeeaaahhh, pretty much.

Aaaaand sadly still…

When said near me in earnest, I always reply: “Why? Did he run out of locusts?”