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Saint Downy Woodpecker and Saint Nuthatch.

Down on the Hank Aaron Trail... I saw in the Shepherd that there is a walk along the Hank Aaron Trail today to view the public art, so I thought I’d add a piece to the work on display. I hope this version of my Great Grandfather’s dove doodle will ride for a long time, like the one in Bay View. The paintings mounted on the fence commemorate the fair housing marches of the late 1960′s. I was a baby back then, and my parents had a hard time finding housing on the East Side because people didn’t want to rent to families with young children. They were asked to leave the apartment in which they lived because they displayed the sign of a political candidate in their street-facing window. My parents and my mother’s family were active in James Groppi’s movement. I rode above the marchers on my father’s shoulders. I remember passing by an abandoned building bearing the sign of the Youth Commandos when I rode the #60 Burleigh bus to Jackie Robinson Middle School in the early years of school desegregation. Now I shop at Groppi’s in Bay View. The Milwaukee River rolls by the trail and under the 16th Street Viaduct, our own Edmund Pettus Bridge. Many many rivers yet to cross. Hank Aaron Trail Walk http://npaper-wehaa.com/shepherdexpress#2015/08/13/?article=2578793 The Itals - Roll River Jordan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHVxlL_jQa0

When you love someone.

Paraphrased from “The Pond in Winter,” by Thoreau. The “H” is by William Morris. http://genius.com/Henry-david-thoreau-the-pond-in-winter-annotated/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morris

When was the last time you saw a real one?

Here we are, all of us: in a dream-caravan, A caravan, but a dream – a dream, but a caravan. And we know which are the dreams. Therein lies the hope.  -- Bahauddin Naqshband This piece may not end up outside...we’ll see. The quote in the painting is from Wendell Berry’s novel, Remembering, which I’ve used in other pieces. When I first read it I was reminded of the Sufi teaching stories of the Mulla Nasrudin from my childhood. You can read some of them here, from Idries Shah Sayyid’s Caravan of Dreams.

Beware of monsters roaming around Bay View. This one was spotted on KK @ OK, waiting to attack a bus shelter.

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