Today, to be thankful / to be grateful,
for a gentle morning orange light, and the indication of brighter, longer days. It’s not just feeling the present beauty, but the sense that feeling includes an incorporation of a future truth, a future optimism.
for Nimco Ali
for the conflict artists have accepting commissions to paint those in
positions of power. There are many traps towards sentimentality and
romanticising as terrible system through a humanising lens. However,
with these Obama inclusions, as an act of confirmation that people of
colour can achieve such a privileged position in the context of a
country famous for its abuse and oppression of people of colour is a
hopeful expression within that context.
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