The aesthetic of good news

linda,   Breaking news from Spokane – Bob won a huge victory for reproductive justice for millions of Washingtonians and individuals across the country.   As a result of the multistate lawsuit Bob led, a federal judge in Spokane just issued a decision protecting the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone.    This ruling occurred on the same day a Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas ruled to suspend mifepristone nationwide. Thanks to Bob and his legal team, however, access is protected in the 17 states and District of Columbia who joined Bob’s coalition despite this radical decision in Texas.   Bob will keep fighting to defend reproductive rights for Washingtonians and we will keep you updated on his progress.    Team Ferguson   ^^^^so, that was in my mail last night. Bob Ferguson also , during the Orange calamitous years, fought to have Washington state a refugee welcoming state, with additional aid for disabled and poor. Plus , y'all can get a safe abortion here and there is not a GDchurch on every corner screaming at you.. Our Q-anon neighbor has taken down her flags  and posters, did she find two brain cells to rub together, or maybe she is just worn out....Good news, No Orange signs in the yard, or flags of yellow snakes waving.

I just purchased this book"The Aesthetic Value Of The world". I went straight to the "ugly " part. Appreciating ugly at a level of interest - non comparable value. Sometimes it is a struggle , immediately jumping into judgement and revulsion. That is normal. There is a reason for that in nature. Art may be a different thing, though. I know of an artist who sculpts fabric and found objects together which at first glance looks rubbish.  Closer inspection reveals the marvel of her work, the stitches, the rust and dirt, its life,  like poetry , aging objects- over all , from a distance, it looks like guts hanging and there is no color to bail it out...but, given some measure of study the works are mighty! Some say"ugly" and walk on, they miss out!

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Springtime birthday - his four year old hand preserved in plaster.  One must wait until the child is old enough to stay still for longer than five minutes to cast a hand .  Such a creative hand it has become, on the shelf where some of his pottery lives, the house is full of his creativity. Genius Bunny child! This was the rabbit suit I made for him when he was Two years old, he wore it until he was five! Not everyday , mind you. This photo is from the children's parade, Fair Days, when he was four, Emily is by his side but got chopped off, probably because she looked normal! A beautiful little girl in sparkles.

He  will be coming up for Schrodinger's Jesus day. I have made another batch of hot cross buns but have not yet added the apricot shine on top. It is a better batch glad to say, though they look more cross than hot...

Happy Spring! It is roaring like a lion up here!The weather is challenging my appreciation skills. The cherry blossoms being blown to the neighbor's yard,  cold wind bending branches and making the birds work harder for a living! I saved the tulips and put them in a jar.In The Aesthetic Value of the World , Tom Cochrane defends Aestheticism, the claim that everything is aesthetically valuable and that a life lived in pursuit of aesthetic value can be a particularly good one. Furthermore, in distilling aesthetic qualities, artists have a special role to play in teaching us to recognize values; a critical component of virtgrounds his account upon an analysis of aesthetic value as 'objectified final value', which is underwritten by an original psychological claim that all aesthetic values are distal versions of practical values. This is followed by systematic accounts of beauty, sublimity, comedy, drama, and tragedy, as well as appendix entries on the cute, the cool, the kitsch, the uncanny, the horrific, the erotic, and the furious.