WINDS OF CHANGE
“Forces that have the power to change things……..used generally to mean change is going to happen.” In these troubling and uncertain times that are facing the world today including poverty, disease , hunger and political turmoil, one hopes that “a change is gonna come”. A simple change of weather could
4-11 Revolution
I believe we are watching an epic period in world political history at present. The actions being taken, and the responses others make, will have consequences on a global scale and may take many years to recover from. Watching and listening to the “noise” occurring on a minute-by-minute basis is
Winds of Change
Today I learned there is a Wiktionary… how interesting! The Wiktionary definition of the phrase Winds of Change is as follows: Noun winds of change pl (plural only) Etymology Coined by UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1960 in a speech advocating decolonization made in Cape Town, South Africa which
“I Wheeled With the Stars, My Heart Broke Loose on the Wind”
My creative process began with looking up the definition of “revolution” in the dictionary. Revolution and revolt share a common origin, both tracing back to the Latin “revolvere,” meaning “to revolve, roll back.” In the 14th century, “revolution” initially described the orbit of a celestial body, later expanding to include
The Unfinished American Revolution
The Unfinished American Revolution 4-11 Martha Ressler My idea was to use a small sampling of the political buttons I’d collected over many years of political activity to illustrate how the promise of the American revolution has fallen short and how realizing its promise has taken – is taking –
The Industrial Revolution
When I heard that “Revolution” was to be our next prompt, it filled me with too many options. It seems that there is always a revolution of some kind going on somewhere in the world. Cultural revolution, political revolution, Art revolution etc. I remembered stories that my Grandmother told about
The AI Revolution
More than 60 years ago, when television was still in black and white, the anime “Astro Boy” was very popular among children. Astro Boy is a human child-like robot that has gentle emotions and is equipped with so-called high-tech functions that allow it to make decisions with its own brain.
Wicked in the Worst Way
An adjective that can be used as a compliment, the word ‘wicked’ LITERALLY means evil or morally wrong. I have been disgusted daily with the actions of the USA’s current president and his wicked circle of appointees and supporters. My quilt includes symbols of greed, destruction, lies, and hatred displayed
Trigger Words
I don’t know what keeps you up at night, but I worry deeply are about the massive changes in our treasured constitutional democracy. It is the many changes of just about everything, but especially the subtle, -or not so subtle-, changes in our American English language. It started years ago
My Revolutionaries
We have talked about Revolution in terms of its meaning in the political sense and many of the revolutions that have occurred in modern history; the American, French, and Spanish. Elfrede has discussed the physical and mechanical type of revolution, being rotation. I wanted to explore a different type of
Revolutie vs Rotatie
Janine has already told us that Revolution and Rotation have a common origin in Latin. Jacque’s poignant opinion has opened the eyes of all of us, I think, to what is going on in America at the moment. At the time, we didn’t know anything about the terrible meeting
Peaceful Revolution?
When I think of revolution, most images are about rough and hard fighting, demonstrations, people being hurt, killed, murdered and general chaos. There are very few exceptions, although images and headlines of the time just before the fall of The Wall that separated West and East Germany swell up. Being