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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSorry, folks, there will be no Friday Afternoon Challenge today...
I am just too heartsick at the end of this week -- as everyone here is -- and my heart would not be into it. Probably, most of us are just too ragged from all the tragedies that hit this week. Too many lives smashed, too much violence, too much pain. The cumulative effect, including the Senate vote on the gun bill and seeing the faces of Obama, Biden and Gabby Giffords at the White House, has given me pause.
Next week we will have another Challenge. I will see you then.
Everybody keep safe out there.
Love you!
Cleita
(75,480 posts)You just take a rest from this.
nolabear
(41,915 posts)CTyankee
(63,768 posts)Some people think that "Girl with Pearl Earring" is Vermeer's contemplation of beauty and simplicity in a terrible time, perhaps a comfort to him. Almost as if he painted it to get solace and refuge. Perhaps.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)You just rest, and we will too...
Better days are coming!
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)I had prepared a Challenge which would have been entirely appropriate at any other time. But not this week. And also because I realize that we are all emotionally spent people, looking for the answers, hoping that this will be resolved soon, but asking so many questions...
You are right. Better days will come...we have had some wonderful news in our family which really helps...so I know full well that life goes on...let's just take time to reflect and mourn...
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)A challenge about Boston? Maybe some famous works at the local museums there?
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)I get it...therapy...
I could handle that. I love two of Boston's museums, MFA and Isabella Stewart Gardner! But it would probably be too easy to just google those museums and click on the "permanent collection" tab...
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)But we're all so honest!
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,570 posts)JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)DU loves you back!
Julie
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)marions ghost
(19,841 posts)Hard week emotionally.
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)right now. And it really helps to talk about this with other DUers.
Do you know Stanley Kunitz's poem, "The Testing Tree"? There is this wonderful quote from it:
The heart breaks and breaks
and lives by breaking
it is necessary to go through
dark and deeper dark
and not to turn
OY.
sheshe2
(83,319 posts)The whole situation is overwhelming. I am to short on words to say more.
Love and
sheshe
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)"Hope" is the thing with feathers
"Hope" is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stopsat all
And sweetestin the Galeis heard
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm
I've heard it in the chillest land
And on the strangest Sea
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumbof Me.
Emily Dickinson
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)And you are, too!
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)Take care. R & R can also mean "rest and reflection" and I think so many of us are doing that now...and altho I am not religious, this is, through the great art of Brahms, one of my "go to" places for solace and reflection:
suffragette
(12,232 posts)You take care as well.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)You got that right. I see why you would have a hard time doing the Friday Afternoon Challenge this week. It has been an awful, terrible week.
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)I knew that this was going to be the week where I may have had a chance.
I could have been a contender.
Love you CT too.
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)Next week, we'll start again. A little repose, a time to reflect. It will be good for us.
I think it is good that so many of us are saying ""what the hell am I doing? how do I expect things to change?"
Art will, eventually, save you. Do not doubt it.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)"Birds, ducks and rabbits featured in artistic cartoon features".
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)I'm always looking for new material, folks...
ellisonz
(27,709 posts)CTyankee
(63,768 posts)we had some really good news in our family and I keep getting a constant stream of pics of my newest grandchild via Facebook from my son! And I'm preparing for my trip to London in late May. So there are the good things in life to be happy about!
Thanks for asking, ellisonz...that was nice of you!
ellisonz
(27,709 posts)I'm expecting several weeks worth of Friday Afternoon Challenge material from your trip!
And mazel tov on your new grandchild!
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)But I'm bringing a fresh notebook to fill when I'm there!
More mazel tov in our family: my stepdaughter whose ordination as a Reform Rabbi is in June has already accepted a job offer from a temple out west, a 132 family congregation! We are beaming with pride!