Comments for Abby Shahn's Blog http://abbyshahn.com/blog art art art Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:27:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Comment on austerity by ashahn http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=85#comment-175 ashahn Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:27:06 +0000 http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=85#comment-175 Long ago, when I lived in NYC we got way behind on the bills. I hated it. Art income is too uncertain. So I've never gone into debt myself. But I realize that it's the only option for many people. Long ago, when I lived in NYC we got way behind on the bills. I hated it. Art income is too uncertain.
So I’ve never gone into debt myself. But I realize that it’s the only option for many people.

]]> Comment on austerity by Jay Davis http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=85#comment-174 Jay Davis Sun, 10 Feb 2013 17:32:40 +0000 http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=85#comment-174 This is very well said. Thank you. It is worth noting how, since about the time of Reagan, there's also been a continuous "war on debtors," such that even though the "official" mortgage or business interest rate is near zero, the poor pay quite high interest rates, and with the way credit reporting has become interconnected, one late payment can cause a tsunami effect on credit card interest rates. Because heavy borrowers are vilified, it's also easy to harvest obscene profits from their consumer debt. This is wrong. Profits made from the misery of others are wrong, and a mistake. I am so sorry we've turned a generation of students, through student loans, over to these loan sharks and piranhas, without even a way for them to get out from under these loans. It's no good for our communities for one sector to be profiting from oppressing another. ~Regards This is very well said. Thank you.

It is worth noting how, since about the time of Reagan, there’s also been a continuous “war on debtors,” such that even though the “official” mortgage or business interest rate is near zero, the poor pay quite high interest rates, and with the way credit reporting has become interconnected, one late payment can cause a tsunami effect on credit card interest rates. Because heavy borrowers are vilified, it’s also easy to harvest obscene profits from their consumer debt. This is wrong. Profits made from the misery of others are wrong, and a mistake. I am so sorry we’ve turned a generation of students, through student loans, over to these loan sharks and piranhas, without even a way for them to get out from under these loans. It’s no good for our communities for one sector to be profiting from oppressing another. ~Regards

]]> Comment on austerity by Michael S. Moore http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=85#comment-173 Michael S. Moore Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:24:33 +0000 http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=85#comment-173 Also: "Nothing ventured nothing gained." Along with private property, isn't that the essence of capitalism? The austerity side says you can only venture savings (capital). The deficit spending side says you can't acquire savings without venturing capital. Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? In this case, the government can create the eggs, then watch the chickens breed. Also: “Nothing ventured nothing gained.” Along with private property, isn’t that the essence of capitalism? The austerity side says you can only venture savings (capital). The deficit spending side says you can’t acquire savings without venturing capital. Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? In this case, the government can create the eggs, then watch the chickens breed.

]]> Comment on shopping by F.R. Vance 2013 http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=81#comment-166 F.R. Vance 2013 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:48:22 +0000 http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=81#comment-166 What a joy to find your blog.......has been too many years without contact.....so....happy to find you and your art again........be sweet.....Vance 2013 What a joy to find your blog…….has been too many years without contact…..so….happy to find you and your art again……..be sweet…..Vance 2013

]]> Comment on shopping by Nancy Parker http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=81#comment-160 Nancy Parker Tue, 01 Jan 2013 01:10:37 +0000 http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=81#comment-160 Keith does not type so you will hear from me, his wife. The marketplace is an important and secure resting spot in the life of many people. I turn to it daily because in a small town it is a way of connecting with those you with whom you are familiar. You may not know the people well but it lends a note of familiarity to see them in their usual place. If they are not there, one inquires to be certain life has not dealt them a bump or a trouncing with which they are having to deal. When I was in my mid twenties I was faced with having surgery the next day for a breast lump. Upon leaving school where I taught I headed for the grocery store and bought everything I thought Keith could eat in the future should the results the next day be traumatic. At some point I must have begun to shed a tear or two which is not in my nature, especialy publicly. A lovely "older lady" (now my age) observing this, calming asked, "Honey, is there anything wrong and can I help?". I told her, "No, thank you, I just realize how much I love shopping for food for my husband". She probably went home and told her husband how she had observed a foolishly emotional young lady making purchases for her next meal and thought we were newlyweds. Hopefully, it brought back sentimental memories for them. The tumor was benign and for that we have forever been thankful. I do always remember the encounter with this kind woman and think of it often when a tiny "older lady" asks me, "Dear, could you please reach the cereal on the top shelf?". Keith does not type so you will hear from me, his wife. The marketplace is an important and secure resting spot in the life of many people. I turn to it daily because in a small town it is a way of connecting with those you with whom you are familiar. You may not know the people well but it lends a note of familiarity to see them in their usual place. If they are not there, one inquires to be certain life has not dealt them a bump or a trouncing with which they are having to deal. When I was in my mid twenties I was faced with having surgery the next day for a breast lump. Upon leaving school where I taught I headed for the grocery store and bought everything I thought Keith could eat in the future should the results the next day be traumatic. At some point I must have begun to shed a tear or two which is not in my nature, especialy publicly. A lovely “older lady” (now my age) observing this, calming asked, “Honey, is there anything wrong and can I help?”. I told her, “No, thank you, I just realize how much I love shopping for food for my husband”. She probably went home and told her husband how she had observed a foolishly emotional young lady making purchases for her next meal and thought we were newlyweds. Hopefully, it brought back sentimental memories for them. The tumor was benign and for that we have forever been thankful. I do always remember the encounter with this kind woman and think of it often when a tiny “older lady” asks me, “Dear, could you please reach the cereal on the top shelf?”.

]]> Comment on shopping by Svea Tullberg http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=81#comment-158 Svea Tullberg Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:06:46 +0000 http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=81#comment-158 A bleary-eyed ant in an ultra lit windowless warehouse, the magnitude of supermarket availability enhances the disconnection between me and where the food comes from. People probably make magic with the supermarket food though. Good to read your voice Abby! A bleary-eyed ant in an ultra lit windowless warehouse, the magnitude of supermarket availability enhances the disconnection between me and where the food comes from.

People probably make magic with the supermarket food though.

Good to read your voice Abby!

]]> Comment on shopping by ashahn http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=81#comment-156 ashahn Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:52:17 +0000 http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=81#comment-156 Oh I know that. But because it is the marketplace I crave more soul. I used to shop at essex street market in NY. I knew the bread guy, I knew the fish guy. Some day I'll tell you about Anna the cat lady who fed all the strays in the market. She was stone deaf in one ear because once some guys were robbing an store where she worked and she tried to talk them out of it and they just shot past her ear. It's because I so love markets. And I keep feeling that the road ahead is uneven for the beautiful young folks. Oh I know that. But because it is the marketplace I crave more soul.
I used to shop at essex street market in NY. I knew the bread guy, I knew the fish guy.
Some day I’ll tell you about Anna the cat lady who fed all the strays in the market.
She was stone deaf in one ear because once some guys were robbing an store where she worked
and she tried to talk them out of it and they just shot past her ear.
It’s because I so love markets.
And I keep feeling that the road ahead is uneven for the beautiful young folks.

]]> Comment on shopping by joan braun http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=81#comment-152 joan braun Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:53:59 +0000 http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=81#comment-152 Ah, Abby, the marketplace has always been a meeting place...look at the Silk Road..and it is an initiation into the basics of feeding ourselves..though not the same as hunting and gathering...and I doubt if any great art comes from it! So it isn't bleak, though the lack of richness of American culture is bleak....and the young one's, thank goddess for them... Ah, Abby, the marketplace has always been a meeting place…look at the Silk Road..and it is an initiation into the basics of feeding ourselves..though not the same as hunting and gathering…and I doubt if any great art comes from it! So it isn’t bleak, though the lack of richness of American culture is bleak….and the young one’s, thank goddess for them…

]]> Comment on slogans by Middleway http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=79#comment-126 Middleway Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:16:20 +0000 http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=79#comment-126 Here is a non-violent way to express to others our common addiction to oil and the cost that it has... www.adropofblood.org/ Here is a non-violent way to express to others our common addiction to oil and the cost that it has… http://www.adropofblood.org/

]]> Comment on slogans by Tracey http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=79#comment-124 Tracey Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:32:38 +0000 http://abbyshahn.com/blog/?p=79#comment-124 I think of it as a vampire biting into the necks of humans dripping oil instead of blood. I think of it as a vampire biting into the necks of humans dripping oil instead of blood.

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