Some people will add "and hairspray for a flamethrower" or something like that -- don't bother. That requires two hands, aim, distance, knowing the wind... worse, it would slow you down.

A lighter alone is fast, one-handed, requires no force, and is discreet enough to get away with un-telegraphed

Things cannot and should not 'return to normal'

Things should be better

Lives should be precious

Exploitation of positions of power should be dealt with more seriously

Equality and the dignity of our livelihood should be a priority

If anything, I hope all this mess at least opens some eyes

Reminder that this and threats of war are literally part of a grand distraction from the FACT -- not theory -- that the sitting US President is involved in a worldwide pd-file ring and is, quite illegally, holding mountains of the evidence hostage as we speak

Do take care to foster that hope... we'll need it to get though. Every one of us that can add a single spark to the blaze is vital. As the wind changes and blows some of our flames out we can lean into each other to reignite. That's community, that's our path to the future.

It is a very touching movie, but did not quite bring me to that creative, motivated, state I'd hoped for 😅

Still worth the watch. Meaningful. & I'm a fan of the poetry touched on and I'm a firm believer in the power of words and the art involved in weaving them together to communicate depth/ideas

Thank you!! :3

Some of the process. Salvaged into scraps, painted, shaped, adhered, then details!

"...but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought."

- Tennyson