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EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

EVERY ANGEL IS TERRIFYING

Duino Elegies–Ranier Maria Rilke

We The People

We The People

January 21, 2018 Jerry King Comments 0 Comment
Good friends and compatriots at beginning of the March

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America…..


Yesterday I attended the Women’s March in Chicago.  I was present at the 2017 march as well.  This one might be bigger than 2017.  300,000 were reported to be in attendance. Numbers matter and numbers do not matter.  Each of us, is a singular individual.  We are members of the greater social whole.  But we live and die individually.

Often on television and radio news I hear Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell making reference to “the American people” when officiously intoning a policy or law endorsed by the referenced group.  While marching shoulder to shoulder with individuals that I’d never know personally I felt that these are whom the founders meant by “We the people of the United States.”  I took these photographs.  Enjoy and consider.  Perhaps you will see yourself in their faces?

women individually building our country
human rights without qualification of gender, status, or net worth
700,000 young adults face impending danger of deportation (exile)

Anger proportionately expressed, toward the right people, at the right time.
March’s end; Trump tower looms, massive, imperious……….

 

 

 

 

 

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