I got called out

I got called out. On my other blog. I got called out for not posting there.
It was delightfully offending. It made me happy. Like someone's watching. It was just the thing I needed, really.
You need community, you do you do. I miss having people ask what I was working on, or how it was all going.
I've been posting here a lot. WAY more than the other. In fact, I check this one near daily. And I check that one maybe once every other week. I go where the party's at, you know?
After I checked my reality, I went to my studio and took a good long inventory. Very good, seeing I do a lot of pieces sllooooowly lately. I realized I haven't done anything quick since summer.

So, I vowed to do a piece a day this week. I'll keep you posted.

oh shi--

Political cartoons, I add them to my list of inspirations.

My art is always torn, between building people up or tearing people down. Maybe I work up a lot of anger toward people, then finally break, and see the good again, and make a piece that reflects that.

Here's the thing. DDT that kills mosquitoes also was thought to have thinned the egg shells of eagles. They banned it. (the book Silent Spring). It has been studied, with no cancerous results, but possible diabetic effects. It was a wonderful mosquito killer, with a super long half life of anywhere from 1 month to 30 years.
Mosquitoes bring malaria. 1 in 10 people in the world will get malaria. Probably not in the US or Europe, because we were able to contain our mosquitoes with DDT. Millions of people in Africa however, aren't so lucky. It is there main cause of death. Africa is known for its poverty. And, after its banned in Europe and America, DDT couldn't be used in Africa, because it would look like we're killing them.
What if there was no Goodwill, all our used stuff we just threw away? because if it was no good for us to use, it's a outrage to give it to someone else.
Here's the moral question, would you rather have your country sprayed with a chemical that could be toxic, but save your people, or continue to die of a preventable disease? And it's not like all of America wasn't already drenched in it. We wouldn't be passing on any poisonous food that we hadn't already have the first bite of.

{as I say this though, the malaria foundation is doing a wonderful job of fighting for Africans, and inventing and providing newer and safer methods of mosquito protection for young children}