December 2019

primarily wood 12 December 2019 …jeffrey uitto…wood artist..sculptor…knock on wood….tokeland..washington… primarily wood …

“Art was then a means of survival” Les enfants-fleurs de la vallée de l’Omo, au sud de l’Éthiopie “Body painting, as practiced here in East Africa, the cradle of humanity, seems to me to represent a way of life that dates from prehistory and once enabled humankind to overcome the hostility of nature. Art was

John Kucko Digital 7 December 2019 Angelica’s Angel Stamp (Part II): It’s a beautiful story of Americana and a quaint Allegany county community coming together. Heard from many of you after my post yesterday here about the traditional Angel Station stamp at the Angelica Post Office. Each December, the postal workers there hand stamp the

walked up to this without knowing what it was, then read its story and was floored. Wonderful when history is told this way. Sydney, Australia Australian Monument to the Great Irish Famine A monument to the 4,114 Irish orphan girls who arrived in Australia between 1848 and 1850. In the southern wall of Sydney’s historic Hyde

scmp.com Thailand’s rebel female monk on fighting sexism in Buddhism Bhikkhuni Dhammananda, 75, helped ordain eight women monks in 2014, only for Thailand’s ruling Buddhist body to prohibit all future female ordinations. But she still find ways to battle her religion’s male monopoly. She continues to ordain female Buddhist novices – about 800 now –

Police arrest Rosa Parks for Violating Bus Segregation Laws in Alabama About the Equal Justice Initiative EJI challenges racial and economic injustice and provides legal representation to people who have been illegally convicted, unfairly sentenced, or abused in jails and prisons. Founded in 1989 by Bryan Stevenson, a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer and bestselling author