by Dutch artist, Judith de Leeuw
[more below in 1st box]
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I could not help but reflect on this when I saw this revealed
the day before the 4th of July
as I went from reading the
going from
"BETWEEN" to "BECOMING"
(in sequence in the book)
preceded by
"LETTING GO"
and
those haunting questions that I began this post
struck the very core of my being with the blatant truth.
So, I wondered what was next
or if perhaps there was an upcoming one on
BELONGING
{no, but in QUESTIONS "belong" appears, p.340}
in a book by Richard Rohr
[pieces of this were in the Readings for Reflection]
[image credit: CBS news]
| "It's important to note that France formally gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States on July 4, 1884, to celebrate US independence and American democracy, among other things. De Leeuw called the unveiling of her mural on July 4th a "meaningful coincidence." |
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"The poem (by Emma Lazarus was written in 1883 to help raise funds for the statue's pedestal. It contrasts the Statue of Liberty with the Colossus of Rhodes, an ancient statue, and presents the Statue of Liberty as a "Mother of Exiles," welcoming immigrants to America." The full text of the relevant section of the poem written on the our Statue of Liberty reads: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" |
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"Roubaix (in France) has a large migrant population, and many of them live in extremely difficult circumstances. The values that the Statue once stood for - freedom, hope, the right to be yourself - have been lost for many." Judith de Leeux |
#30 AWAKE
(p. 227)<>
