To hold them is a pleasure. To drink from them delightful. From a friend who got them at Corvallis Arts Center, Corvallis, Oregon. The artist is Barb Campbell. See http://www.barbcampbellceramics.com.

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Hope and despair are surely themes throughout civilization (and evidenced in art). An uplifting take: https://medium.com/@abby.brockman/despair-is-not-a-strategy-15-principles-of-hope-deba7ac2cb29#.tc7weoipt

Another meeting in a neighbor’s home. A houseful of people gathering to put their values and actions to work to make that moral arc bend just a little further toward justice.  https://peoplepower.org/freedom-cities.html (and ACLU’s logo below, drawn on my cell phone).