Posts by parkejladd
How Far Would You Walk For Water? — Photo Ed
Young women in countries like Mozambique spend hours, each day, retrieving water. Their walk for water is absolutely necessary for survival. The issue, however, is not only that the water retrieved is miles from home but that it’s highly contaminated with disease causing bacteria which subsequently kills thousands of children, their younger brothers and sisters, each year. The aim is to...
Read MoreThoughts On Turning Twenty Seven & Art
Set in 1940′s Greenwich Village, Edward Hopper’s, Nighthawks is one of my favorite pieces. Nighthawks soothes my mind and straightens my often times tousled thoughts in ways no other painting ever has, as if my own existence is somehow bound to its canvas and bordered within its frame. Hopper said this about his art: Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist,...
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The Irony of Christians Making Fun of the Gay Community
The irony of making fun of people who are gay is similar to the irony of making fun of anyone. That is, we make fun of people, ideas and cultures that don’t align with our agendas, personalities, and belief systems. This is the essence of making fun. At the heart of bullying is misunderstanding and a lack of relationship to that which we choose to ridicule. We make fun of people because we...
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June. 2011. Twenty-five year old David Bostic of Bloomington, Indiana, pleads guilty to 66 charges of producing, receiving and distributing heinous images and videos containing child pornography. His victims of exploitation ranged in age from 2 months to 5 years. Babies to toddlers. Her tongue, as she wiped it across the front of her teeth, peeling away bacteria from a long day spent sleeping,...
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