Still life
…just about, but certainly not as we’ve known it. I haven’t much I want to write, though I have a lot to say. Instead an image shared on Facebook (and if you’re avoiding that place right now I don’t blame you) that amused me at the time. Love still live paintings, and although historically they are loaded with symbolism, it’s interesting to see the art repurposed for current events.
Read more about the picture and who created it here.
No I don’t have much to say on the blog, and I’m aware that there is a lot of pressure to ‘unite and heal.’ All I will say is on Friday night someone walked down my street shouting Sieg Heil (well I do live in Kent). And today, for the first time in all this, I was moved to tears by this call to my beloved James O’Brien radio show. A German woman, here for 43 years, her late husband a British doctor. Check it out if you’re not depressed already. I’m turning 40 next week, which means I’ve never known Britain out of Europe. To celebrate my birthday I’m going back to that gorgeous Scottish island. Splendid isolation isn’t the answer to everything but it’ll do for my birthday bash. Scotland’s never looked so appealing. And a week long news blackout will be bliss.
I live in Canada and have been in a state of shock and disbelief about what is happening around me. I thought that the madness belonged in the United States and the fear mongering and rants of Trump. Now I look at Britain and shake my head. Why are these things happening? How do people honestly think that separating themselves from those around around them will make them richer or safer or more stable. We live in a world economy and as such we all have to co-operate.and learn to get along, support one another and stop pointing fingers because things aren’t going your way. The best way is to learn about things such as the EU, how it works, the impact on you before just blindly following someone else’s rhetoric and joining the crowd before really knowing what the crowd stands for. I keep hearing too that the majority has spoken. Really it has not. The majority of those that voted, not the majority of Britain. Not only that, but by the slimmest of margins. It was not a landslide, an overwhelming mandate for change, it was four percent. I cannot believe that this can be finalized on those statistics. This referendum has brought out the very worst in many of the people that want to exit. I see and hear racism and fear that I have never heard before and it actually makes me scared for the future and what might be in store. Common sense and a reality check needs to come into play before it is too late.
I feel EXACTLY like this Anne, although it is Jill writing here and not Ros I should be clear (who wrote the above). It is a sham and a shame and I am currently writing to a lot of politicians! At its most basic, it is a move towards a Fascist world. Don’t be surprised if My Friend’s House are writing from Scotland in future. Thanks for commenting from Canada.
Unfortunately the Metro’s got it wrong – the person who created it was a friend from my days at Oxford. She called it “Brexit, a Still Life.” She said – “I don’t know if anyone noticed, but the beans are in a classic French cocotte”. Ha! HuffPo has the correct credit: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/best-brexit-tweets_us_576d4f96e4b0dbb1bbba5399
The call with the German lady made me cry on the train. I’m Italian, I’ve been here 14 years. I’m scared.