"Love wants to rise, not to be held down by anything base... He who loves flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. Derive happiness from yourself, from a good day's work, from the clearing that it makes in the fog that surrounds us." -- painter and multi-visual artist Henri Matisse (12/31/1869 - 11/3/1954), from "Matisse on Art", Jack D. Flam, 1955.
In the fog that surrounds our culture and politics, a toxic fog at that, we can make a clearing in the fog if only temporarily by working for democracy, honesty, integrity, hope and love, and against the candidates that represent the opposite.
(Image: Dance (1910), one of Matisse's most famous works)
