I will now support Obama now that Kucinich has dropped out. I've read Obama's books and listened to the debates - checked out the lists of what they'd do - and while Kucinich consistently represented principles of integrity and peace I've looked for in candidates since I protested the Viet Nam war in the 60's, he dropped out after having been battered by our news networks. Until he had to accept the dice were loaded, he didn't falter, double talk, or quibble, and reminded us that when you use nuclear threats, you threaten the world. A nuclear explosion ANYWHERE affects all of us EVERYWHERE. I intend to keep Obama apprised of anything I learn in that area.
About me - I am a full-time working artist. I left KCMO and my (now ex) husband June of 2006, quit a very good administrative assistant job in the corporate world, flipped a house in Boise, moved to Heyburn, Idaho in September, got my divorce final, and now I paint.
Find some of my paintings here in my pics, and all of them at http://www.yessy.com/ppgfhI love painting. I love writing. And I love reading to an audience who enjoys being read to. I love the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Auden, Yeats and Robert Frost. I love my own poetry (else why write it?) http://heywoodlorraine.com/Poempage.htm
I paint - oil and acrylic on canvas - 20 hours a week or more. Not a novice, but hadn't painted seriously for years, and I'm loving it. My house is full of art, mine, my mother's and other folks. I'm here for the audience.
I'm allergic to smoke, to alcohol, and to cats.
The poster child for the triumph of hope over experience, I've been married before. Three times in the sixties. Briefly in the 80's. Once for seven years in the 90's. I don't count the ones in the sixties. The divorces don't bother me nearly as much as the marriages to the wrong people. It's taken me years to figure out why we married. Why we divorced was always more evident.
