My fingernails are unbelievably long – for me, so no sculpture has been done for some time.  The nails usually get chopped off with toenail clippers, since it’s so easy to accidentally gouge out a piece of clay when I’m working.

So here I am with my long nails getting crankier and/or sadder by the hour.  In the end the gardening just doesn’t do it for me – I need the art.  Perhaps a portrait is the answer for now, if I can just talk the perfect subject into posing.

Loved the movie Julie & Julia!  But I feel like I've been eating ever since I saw it on the weekend.  Good food is so yummy!

Returned this week from a very nice family gathering at the Finger Lakes for my aunt’s 95th birthday.  Although it was sometimes exhausting having taken my ninety-year old mother along on this trip, it was great to see all the relatives again.  Obviously, I got no art done, but I did think a lot about political issues.

Healthcare Reform

My thoughts on healthcare reform are:

• That it has to be done. 
  
• That it must include a public option. 
•  That those who are working seriously on this must answer their critics and not think that they can stay above the frenzy. 

Additional thoughts:

How can people support the military when it is government controlled – the President is, in fact, the Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Services; yet not trust government to help reform healthcare and education?  If they believe that our nation, in order to exist, must have government involved in the defense of our country; how can they not see that healthy and educated citizens are just as necessary for the future of our nation and that government must be involved in both healthcare and education.

It astounds me that when someone says that companies will drop private coverage and force their employees into the public plan, that this is any different from when companies downsize and force their now unemployed workers into no health coverage at all.  Yet, so many trust the private sector (where there are no checks and balance) over the government, which has oversight.

It shows just how lacking our educational system is when most have no understanding of the way our system of government works, yet many of these same people complain of too much government.