Taryn

I just got my first response and it is pretty exciting to have a computer discussion! Eric validated my "activation" comment and it cracks me up that he feels we are in the norm. One of the reasons I posted the first comment about "activating" is, I recently moved in with my boyfriend and he does not water his tooth brush at any time prior to putting it into his mouth - so this makes me think, either I have met the only person in the world like this, or there are two types of people - the watered brushes and the non-watered brushes and I am proof that the two can coexist somewhat harmoniously.

ON a different note -addressing the ideas of art and incorporating art into our lives. I was trying to say how ART NEEDS to be more present. I was thinking about how FRANKLIN Delano ROOSEVELT made all those Public Projects during the depression and it was through ART that people had a new sense of importance, purpose, life, meaning - everything. It took art to raise the nation's moral. I just wish that people (on a huge scale) would again realize the immense importance of the arts in comparison to border control and homeland security; or better yet that art IS homeland security [but homeland security is NOT art {of course through CIA this can be disputed - I'm sure}]. I just wish that government would take an active role again of promoting creativity and imagination, and I hope that it doesn't take another national tragedy to initiate it.

I feel that this article is a step in the best direction to realizing art as more.