Just gonna throw this out there that no book is more prescient for the times we face. It’s not hyperbole to say that the similarities to right now are chilling. You won’t vote your way out of this with a spineless opposition party and this is going to end very badly for many, many people.

Well, there you are. 🤷‍♀️

"Iron laws of the world"? Some of America's most important national accomplishments are about leading humanity away from this kind of bullshit.

If we let ideologues like Stephen Miller drag us back into a world where brute force is all that matters, all of us will be less safe.

The subject of this mixed media painting from 2015 is the pond in the grounds of the Old Rectory, Yelling (a curiously named village). I enjoyed sitting there working on this. A couple of moorhens can be seen swimming around sketched in on the far side.
#art #watercolour #gouache #ink #oilpastel

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