Art
I have begun the long-postponed Labor of love that is Art. I made a box in sculpture and printmaking class my senior year of highschool  ihave it on my mantle right now. it has a picture of Thoreau on the back, swigs jutting out in all directions and quotes all around. I went to the Art Institute of Chicago and saw some boxes by Joseph Cornell I was inspired and decided that I liked it so much that I would take the style and make it my own. I bought some rustic boxes off ebay along with a tintype, I have been gathering random junk for a few years and went to Michaels the other day to get inspired…I bought a bunch of supplies and have started the work on the first free-lance box. no assignment, pure enjoyment. once it is done, I am sure there will be a picture of it on here!

2 exams done, 2 to go!

I have and interview at the YMCA tommorrow, I hope it goes well

My brother leaves for Europe on Wednesday

Rant
I watched the movie Roger and Me today, it is the first big documentary by Michael Moore (Bowling For Columbine) the main thing that I took away from it is that we all have a moral responsibility to eachother and that responsibility must be lived out. We depend on other people, and they depend on us, that is the essence of society. We must let go of our selfish nature and try to make things better for people around us. There is no reason for a person to harm others for personal gain. I also believe that we should try to focus on our own problems before we can help others. This idea applies to the poor and starving within our own country as well as the fight for equal rights of all people. Our country has serious problems, we need to worry about those before we can worry about other countries.
I hate it when people fight over political issues, I don’t like radical statements that lean far to either side. I feel as though no one has the full story but they act as though they do. It is way to easy to just blame everything on president Bush and say that he is a big idiot. It is also foolish to say that the “problems” that the country is facing arent problems at all. I HATE war, and I would consider myself to lean more towards the left than the right. but I really hate it when people get extremely biased information from news sources that lean to either extreme and present it as the factual unbiased truth. We don’t have the full story! When people show “hidden” findings that make the other side look bad, they are just relaying an incomplete picture.
Hypothetical Example: Let’s say that your friend comes and shows you a picture of a boy holding a rifle to a dogs forehead, this dog looks like the cutest little innocent canine in the world. His big puppy-dog eyes stare up at the boy with love. Your immediate reaction would be that this kid is messed up, what kind of kid would shoot a cute dog like that!? the next picture is one of the dead dog lying in a pool of blood and the boy smiling. Your friend explains that the dog was mad and had already bitten this boy’s little baby brother, the dog needed to be killed out of mercy for the dog and to protect the family.
This is what happens every day, people see one side, tell one side but do not know the motivation, do not know that back-story. I am not saying that the war, or any violence against another human being is ever justified, I am just saying that we cannot react to only half of the story. I believe that killing is wrong. I believe that the death penalty is wrong, I believe that war is wrong. I do not think that one person has the right to determine if another person should live or die, that is God’s responsibility. Sure prisons get crowded, and it costs taxpayers money…but we don’t need to spend so much on military supplies, corporate CEO’s don’t need to make as much money, schools need better funding, this country has serious problems. we need to face those first. we need to love one-another. we cannot blindly follow people leading us into wrong, we need to voice our concern, but what we need to be cautious of is in our efforts to stop blindly following one power, that we do not do the same to an apposing power. More people need to admit that they don’t have all the answers, all the motivations, all the history. We need to realize the faults in the system, and the revolution. We need to hold fast to basic moral truths and values and never give them up. The End