Dawn Walk via Ed’s house in Stackpool Road (to check a couple
of details for my drawing) and then across Prince Street and Pero’s Bridges and
along Hannover Quay, past the Pump House and then back via Ashton Avenue Bridge
(Metrobus Bridge), Clift House Road and ultimately Upton Road. Another lovely
morning and walking anti-clockwise around the harbour (with my back to the sun)
felt somewhat strange.
Morning coffee with Moira in the garden, followed by reading
some of my Armitage book.
Managed to finish my sketch for Ed Hodge (10th
anniversary present for Helen) – in the end, I decided against trying to give
it a watercolour wash (I chickened out… didn’t want to mess it up and have to
start again!).
I listened to the second Resonate podcast (‘The Church in
Lockdown’) while sketching – very interesting, albeit it quite long – some 75
minutes.
This week’s Drawing Group theme was ‘Bristol’… and as I like
to try to set aside part of my Tuesdays for Drawing Group, I made a pretty
rapid sketch of some buildings on Lower Park Street, via google/streetview.
A black American, George Floyd, was recently ‘murdered’ by a
policeman (well, he’s been arrested following release of a video of his
actions)… it’s resulted in a world-wide outcry (‘Black Lives Matter’) and
extensive rioting in the States – not helped by Trump’s threatening and
intimidating comments of retaliation (“when the looting starts, the shooting
starts”)… and then, today, he gets police to tear gas peaceful
protesters to clear a way for a photo opportunity (with him posing holding a
Bible in front of a church)... the local Bishop wasn’t happy: “The President just used a Bible and
one of the churches of my diocese as a backdrop for a message antithetical to
the teachings of Jesus and everything that our church stands for. To do so, he
sanctioned the use of tear gas by police officers in riot gear to clear the
church yard. I am outraged. The President did not pray when he came to St.
John’s; nor did he acknowledge the agony and sacred worth of people of color in
our nation who rightfully demand an end to 400 years of systemic racism and white
supremacy in our country…” *no words*.
A
‘gentle’ evening leading up to part two of “A House Through Time”, featuring
Karen+David’s house.
Image:
Somebody brightened up the skies of Bedminster today… (we needed this today).
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