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Hope is passive, which is maybe why it gets a bad rap. Hope inquiries a certain lack of agency. It’s a kind of binary; we either have it or we don’t and we don’t get to decide which. Optimism, on the other hand, is active, a state of self determination. Optimism isn’t blind faith things will get better. Optimism is about what we want, and making strategic and consistent effort to make them better. Optimism is defiant and, disruptive.
They painted over this a few years ago, I thought it was gone forever. Then, about a year later, someone painted a perfect reproduction of the original.
Sometimes things don't have to go away forever.
College assignment using the keyword 'optimism', Rembrandt's paintings heavily influenced this series. (scanned 35mm print)
Two year old, Sam McCaffery, son of UNCG's men's basketball coach, Fran M cCaffery, practices his "jumpshot" after the game that was played at UNCG on Tuesday, February 22, 2000.
Very funny musical number about e-mail spam. The woman on the left wanted a bigger vagina.
Go see the show. I promise it makes sense.
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Nothing is more blissful than a stroll along the beach with the subdued sunlight gleaming at your face. ( Taken in Tofino, Vancouver Island May 15th, 2006 ).
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Suppose you are walking in a scorching heat and it starts raining on your head.. You might not like rain or the heat but together they might end up creating a rainbow for you!
Louisiana is reported to be losing 25 to 35 square miles of coastal wetlands each year – one football field of land per hour. The causes of the land loss are from natural causes and human interference, and include reduced sediment flow from the Mississippi River and its tributaries, land subsidence, and sea-level rise. To combat the diminishing and degrading coastal habitats, Jefferson Parish instituted a program that found a role for discarded Christmas trees to lessen wave energy and to combat erosion. Wooden cribs are constructed parallel to the shoreline to hold the trees. Volunteers, the Louisiana Air National Guard, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and others have coordinated the collection and placement of trees in these pens to lessen the impact of waves and storms. The calm water between the cribs and coast traps sediment and allows for plants and aquatic life to establish. Jefferson Parish has been tracking the impact of this Christmas tree recycling project. Between 1998 and 2015, an unprotected area of shoreline lost over 23 acres of habitat, while a section protected by trees only lost 3 acres. The Christmas tree recycling program not only assists coastal habitats but generates awareness among Louisiana residents and provides an opportunity for participation in making a difference for the coast.
The quilt is to be viewed from the top to the bottom, representing a relative sequence over time as viewed at one location. No quantitative data is implied in terms of spatial or temporal patterns sewn. Each horizontal gray strip of fabric represents breaks in time. At the top of the quilt, one sees a wide strip of “plant” fabric representing a marsh coastline, and a smaller piece of “water” fabric representing the coastal water. As one moves down to the next row of plant/water fabric, there is less of the land fabric and more of the water fabric. This is to represent erosion occurring along the Louisiana coast, where marsh habitat is being lost from wave energy, subsidence, seal-level rise, etc. As one moves down the next several rows, there is a continued loss of the coast with an increasing encroachment of water. In the middle of the quilt, a Christmas tree crib appears. The successive rows show a reduction in loss of the marsh over time, reflecting the results shared by Jefferson Parish (still marsh loss but less volume when the Christmas trees were put in place).
This is my story of coastal optimism – a story of habitat loss and degradation that is slowed by the placement of discarded Christmas trees.