“I can’t believe I still have to stand here and hold this sign!” Woman supporting filibuster outside Texas Capital.

So I can take a pill to take back my period.

“Being gay is not a choice, but being a bigot is.” I instantly re-tweeted from God@thetweetofgod. It’s funny, not true.

Took me a while to figure out how it’s not true, but like art which is not true, it points to truth. Like the Pietà, Michelangelo’s sculpture that shows Mary the mother of Jesus strong and tall while her crucified son is like a child in her arms. Not necessarily true proportions, just true about a mother’s heart.

I don’t believe being a bigot is a choice. It’s not a permanent state of being, either. Gay is permanent, judging from my straight perspective, though I might be off. But bigot is like pregnant. It’s a state. It may or may not be a choice. It can and will, usually, end. It’s story and outcome are what epic is made of. Plenty of bigotry ends in abortion. Other bigotry ends with new life. Bigotry, yes, is human. Mine and yours. It’s a place on a journey, a grade in school, an incomplete quest. What we do with it may become art.

High school kid calls fifth-grader stupid.

Well, she don’t know The Grapes of Wrath isn’t fruit!

Art doesn’t make sense, it helps me make sense-of people.

This “Yes-we-are-allowed-to-end-a-relationship-before-it-bigins-filibuster is pregnant.
Art is being made here. Bigotry is a shiny material.

Inspired history feels like community committed art. HIstory is being made here.
Could making history be making art?

The Daily Post: The Artist’s Eye

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