I am a 50 year old female who loves photography, politics and gardening. I came to all but the gardening late in life when I became an empty nester, after I sent my youngest son off to college in 2003.
I became political in 2003 after my son joined the Army. We agreed with hunting down Bin Laden in Afghanistan but opposed the invasion of Iraq. I marched against the invasion and found myself spit on and verbally abused by the people here in the so called bible belt. Today 5 years later I can say I told you so. People now wave and give me the thumbs up while I drive around town, you see I have covered my car with bumper stickers, Out of Iraq, Bring the troops Home Now, No Blood for Oil and my favorite When Religion Ruled The World They Called It The Dark Ages.
No one in American should be hungry or homeless. Hurricaine Katrina proved to me that there is Two Americas and we have much more to do to level the playing field. There by the Grace of God go I.
Pottersville Is where Bush and FEMA have housed those after Katrina. Most living there had homes and jobs but now only have FEMA trailers that are killing them with formaldehyde and no jobs. Ignoring the poor is a sin if you believe in Christ and proclaim yourself a Christian (which I don't). I'm a liberal socialist I guess and proud of it. The Clinton/Bush Katrina Fund still hasn't answered my emails as to why the money I donated isin't being used to help the people of Pottersville. I did not give it to them to be used by Corportations but for making sure a Pottersville never happened.
Dennis Kucinich and Me in Las Vegas last March. I was just in the right place at the right time.
My award from the photograpy convention. I have yet to sell any of my butterfly pictures for calendars, puzzles or greeting cards, but I have not lost hope to do so in the future. It's true it is who you know.
Bob Gruen is the photographer to the music world. He has a wonderful book "John Lennon The New York Years" which I bought and he signed while I was in Las Vegas. Bob is a fantastic photographer.
This picture was taken to mark the 2,000th soldier to die in Iraq. Only 17 people showed up here in the bible belt to say a prayer for them. Let the republicans and democrats pass all the resolutions against Move On.Org all they want because it was Move On who had prayer vigils all over America that day for the soldiers. I have yet to see a prayer vigil done by the Republicans.
