Volume 7 Number 2, February 2007

> PRIORITIES

I'm having a harder and harder time prioritizing "art" to be the first thing to be concerned about, when the world outside of art and museums is at war against, or with, Islamic (and other) religious fundamentalism.

It seems to me, respectfully, that so long as any of us in the art businesses persist in behaving as if things were "normal" when they aren't, then we are contributing to a potential outcome the likes of which none of us can imagine.

The number of "clients" VAA has lost due to my focus upon war, is incalculable. The outcome of my attentions upon my family, is likewise incalculable. Yet, I must attend to THE priority, and have provided for them as best I could. I hope for their blessings and patience... and, I hope for them to have valor.

When, and if, wars are won, or lost... then ordinary people can rightfully return to our personal priorities. There ARE times, such as we are all now in, when war takes precedence.

From all that I have seen, and witnessed, it appears that an insufficient number of us realizes how truly dire our circumstances are...

Artists, bless their hearts and souls, will contiinue making art... as did the incarcerated during the Nazi Holocaust.

To my way of thinking, if we do not rise up and defeat the declared enemy before us all worldwide, then art, as it were and is, will have become meaningless.

I am at a loss to supply adequate words...

Everything most of us believe in, and have given our hearts to, could fall like a house of cards... into nothingness, unless or until THIS unique war is won... it is a war of many known and unknown domestic and international dimensions.

There does not exist a "saviour," other than ourselves.

Darwin was correct.

"Survival of the fittest."

Are WE "fit"?

ABOLISH:
- Electoral College
- Gerrymandering
- Closed Primaries
- Eminent Domain
- Sovereign Immunity

"Ars longa, vita brevis"