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You teenager in the sixties, had brother(s) and/or sister(s), many or none??
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: latjoreme on March 21, 2007, 11:32:07 am ---Sorry, but I just have to throw in a quick defense of the Midwest. Many parts of the Midwest are not particularly backward, and many parts of coastal states are.
It's hard to get much more specific because you didn't say exactly what you meant. But I can say that all of the places I have lived in the Midwest -- especially Minneapolis, but also Chicago and New Orleans (which isn't technically Midwest but is in the middle of the country) are extremely liberal. Admittedly not as hip as New York or California, in the sense of fashion and art and trends and cultural sophistication. But socially and politically, often very progressive. Sometimes even leading the rest of the country in those areas.
:)
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Yes, I agree. I loved living in Kansas City! While I was writing that about the Midwest being backwards my fingers became rather ploddish and I wondered if I should change it to rural areas instead. Yup, I should have! Now, where's the champion of the rural areas?? ::)
Artiste:
Thanks latjoreme!
It is indeed wonderful to know your reflexions!! They are great!!
May I say:
Of the pantings I create, I have done my exhibitions in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco, many times!!
There is less art galleries, exhibitions in California, maybe? Possibly more, I found in Los Angeles, in those days I did, than New York City, in some ways, if you percentage the population!! However, maybe same ratio, in those cities, as elsewhere in the USA and the world!! Unfortunatley, persons throughout the wolrd, do NOT have art on there walls in their homes: not an original painting!! Unfortunately!
I never did have my paintings shown in Chicago and would love to do so... maybe Oprah would help me there? Ha! Ha! She seems to accept gays?
Nouvelle Orleans would be great too, for my paintings!!
Would enjoy sending by mail to art galleries, culturel centres, museums, etc. (even in a house show?), in the Midwest, too!! Possible? Or elsewhere?
I think that that is nescessary even, so that gays would be safer in the Midwest and elsewhere in the world!
To that, did you read my comment about my exhibition in Quebec City last year which affected surprisingly viewers (2 persons as lovers)??
Hugs!
Brown Eyes:
Well, I'm 31, so I wasn't around in the 1960s. ;D
But, for what it's worth, I am an only child like the Twists/ Newsomes. I think it's made me very independent and very introspective.
I was very lucky because I have a very good relationship with both of my parents. In a situation like Jack's (where one parent was especially hard on him/ abusive) I can't imagine how difficult that would be. Obviously, without a sibling there's no buffer between the parents and the child. As I get older and my parents get older I am growing increasingly worried about how difficult it will be to take care of them on my own when they become elderly. I think at that point I might wish for a sibling to help out. But, really I never missed having siblings.
For me, growing up an only child also made me very, very used to socializing with adults pretty young. There were lots of occasions where I was the only kid at a social gathering that my parents would be throwing. But, I remember liking that... Sort of feeling like I was being *included* with the adults.
Assuming that Lureen is an only child, I do sort of relate to her in being extremely ambitious and close to her father in matters of business, etc. I know I looked up to my Dad a lot in matters of career decisions as I was growing up (although, my Dad and I are in different careers and my Dad is nothing like L.D.). My Mom was a stay-at-home mother, which is a life path that I did not take at all (not even close).
I wonder if Lureen would have been so close to L.D. if she had a brother... and that of course would reflect more on L.D. than Lureen. I would guess that L.D. would be chauvinistic enough to have favored a hypothetical son in grooming him instead of Lureen to take over the family business.
Artiste:
Thanks Front-Ranger!
Your answers to my questions are powerful to me, and surely to others!!
You create writings, publish them too??
Who is Uncle Harold? Where is that in the film? Or in the book?
Uncle Harold might have been Jack's or Ennis's father or brother??
Hugs!
Artiste:
Thanks atz!!
Wow, your comments are very interesting too!!
The aspects of the girls or women are wonderful, really wonderful!!
Concerning this you said: For me, growing up an only child also made me very, very used to socializing with adults pretty young. There were lots of occasions where I was the only kid at a social gathering that my parents would be throwing. But, I remember liking that... Sort of feeling like I was being *included* with the adults.
In this, you spark too something in me. I now wonder since I think that both of the parents of Jack loved
their son and helped him in their own ways, that that made him socialize, because Jack wanted to do so readily like his mom, as well as had to do so like his dad!! In the film the mother is amiable, and therefore, Jack seeks easily manyways to love! Also, the father is sad, and Jack is sad too... and somehow the father is loveable (I say in his ways) and therefore, Jack seeks a father in a way finding it in Ennis??
Is my question understandable?
Awaiting your news and that of others,
Hugs!
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