Live to tell
Roy Forget, “Live to Tell,” Oil on linen, 89 x 116 cm, 2018-2020 When the number of blog entries reached 100 three years ago, it seemed like I had not much left to say, nothing. It seemed like it was also a moment to reflect and go away for a while. Now, after two years of pandemic life and the associated events, I have decided to at least re-engage with the posts and make them available again. So here they are, as they were before the multiple lockdowns, before the millions of lives taken , and before so many other countless things happened, like the invasion of the capital building in Washington DC by self-proclaimed American patriots, like the Russian invasion of Ukraine for self-proclaimed noble reasons. But for every event that has caused a spiral of pessimism, one can add some small positives, that certain murderers of innocent black men were in fact punished for their crimes, that despite a very conservative US Supreme Court bent on recreating a McCarthy America, we now ha
