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Two Wings and a Prayer
The purpose of life is to be eaten…
Photo by Roman.
Flamingo Tales
A few perspectives of the Alexander Calder in Chicago’s Federal Plaza:
Milkweed
by Ann Roman
This is a water color done by my mother. In some ways, it is a bit crude, but there is also a sense of depth, at least in the original.
Abstract
by accident
End the Shut-Down
Unions representing employees of the Federal government rallied at the Federal Plaza, Dearborn & Adams in downtown Chicago at Noon on Thursday. This was part of a nation-wide series of demonstrations protesting the budget stalemate that has shut down portions of the government, leaving some workers at home and others still at work but all without pay.
The event was probably better characterized as a press conference on steroids. The crowd was not large, considering the number of workers affected in the Chicago metropolitan area, considering, indeed, the number of Federal employees based in the immediate vicinity of the demonstration: say about 150 attendees, give or take a few dozen. As a press conference, it was highly successful with a large turnout from TV, radio and print. Better still was the opportunity for journalists to interview affected workers as nothing makes a story like putting an individual face on it.
There will be a protest at Noon in Federal Plaza (Dearborn & Adams) every Thursday in Chicago as long as the shut-down continues.
Landscape
by Ann Roman
In her later years — about the time I left for college as I was an accidentally late child — my mother took up painting. She started with paint-by-numbers kits, but eventually went on to copy scenes from magazines. This is one of her works, done in acrylic.
