Take a Number

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Take a Number

Post by saw » November 16th, 2021, 6:22 pm

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8 x 10 acrylic paint on heavy paper--2011
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading

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Re: Take a Number

Post by saw » November 16th, 2021, 6:26 pm

painted this 10 years go

" Success is too often somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can only dream about because most people in most places lie awake in the terrible reality of poverty "

from a quote by Ursula K. LeGuin
American writer best known for science fiction......1929
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading

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Re: Take a Number

Post by judih » November 16th, 2021, 10:51 pm

love Ursula
good image, capturing being stuck in bureaucracy of hope/hopelessness

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Re: Take a Number

Post by saw » November 17th, 2021, 11:32 am

Yes judih....thanx for feedback ...
If you do not change your direction
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Re: Take a Number

Post by sasha » November 17th, 2021, 12:55 pm

All you'd need to change to make this relevant for today would be to replace "Unemployment" with "Rational governance".......
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"Falsehood flies, the Truth comes limping after it." - Jonathan Swift, ca. 1710

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Re: Take a Number

Post by saw » November 17th, 2021, 6:18 pm

Your oh so right Roy
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading

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