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2025: The Year of the Tear Down

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2025: The Year of the Tear Down  ChatGPT generated this picture with some edits from me. On the left hand side, slightly lower, is a dilapidated, simply village which represents real life; the hard and ugly parts, the mundane and the broken down. In this picture you see my glasses on top of a Bible-my guidebook and inspiration. I am weak and broken, too, hence the need for glasses. Then there's the vintage sewing machine and the pins and spools of thread; the building blocks of my work. The pins hold things together and the spools are different colors for different area which express different parts of my advocacy work. There's the candle, because modern, bright lighting is not a reality - I only see dimly into the whole picture. There's the cross against the wall - simple, plain, unadorned but the focal point of my vision - it stands between the now - the dilapidated village, and the not yet - the beautiful city on a hill - what I am longing for. The scales of justice are ...