Thursday, July 26, 2012

Crazy Busy

You can't be too busy to read "The 'Busy' Trap."
“Lebenslauf,” Handcolored etching by Adi Holzer, 1997

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

A Study Of Inequality

Jason DeParle's New York Times article "Two Classes in America, Divided by 'I Do'" highlights some of the changes for children and families in my lifetime:

"Four decades ago, households with children at the 90th percentile of incomes received five times as much as those at the 10th percentile, according to Bruce Western and Tracey Shollenberger of the Harvard sociology department. Now they have 10 times as much. The gaps have widened even more higher up the income scale."

"Forty years ago, the top and middle income thirds had virtually identical family patterns: more than 95 percent of households with children in either tier had two parents in the home. Since then the groups have diverged, according to Mr. Western and Ms. Shollenberger: 88 percent at the top have two parents, but just 71 percent do in the middle."

"Four decades ago, families in the top income fifth spent about four times as much as those at the bottom fifth on things like sports, music and private schools, according to research by Greg J. Duncan of the University of California, Irvine, and Richard J. Murnane of Harvard. Now affluent families spend seven times as much."

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Gilded Lily

This is a sculpture of feather flowers and ceramic raccoons in a shell base
that Imogen and I found at the Port Angeles Goodwill.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Robotics

Imogen loves guiding me through
a joint drawing line by line.
Her robot is on the right.

Friday, July 13, 2012

Every Gain Divine

The richest 400 Americans have more wealth
than the bottom 150 Million Americans.
-Ideas, CBC Radio One

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Saturday, July 7, 2012

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