Babies, Kids and Haiku

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(Note: at the bottom of this page can be found Introductory Remarks.  It is a short essay on how this society is unfair to children and why. If you wish, skip down to Introductory Remarks at the end of this  page below.

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Babies and Kids

I learned from birds and animals that the best thing in life is having babies. Bison, Elephants, Whales and Ants as well as Deer have babies, and so do Redbirds and Orioles and every other species. Life is babies and they are too taken for granted, made fun or disparaged by men, who seem to think they were not born too. Having children has changed me in profound ways.

The process of birthing is amazing, and though for a time, if one births in a hospital, one abdicates control to nurses and doctors, they are really not in control. They offer a margin of safety, but I could see the baby was in control, something in the mothers body decides with the baby that birth will be now, and no one really understands how that happens exactly.

Yes, the babies changed my life in huge ways, and my thinking. When my daughter was born I saw this happen right away and it has never stopped, 12 years on now. The second child divided me somewhat, — for instance, how do I teach them both at the same time? But he is as amazing as the first.
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“Staying Amazed”: Universal Realism and the Science of Seeing

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To see this art exhibit as a PDF , follow this by clicking here:

Staying Amazed PDF

My trilogy, collectively called Persistant Fictions, also contains a few essays on art. I situate art history with a wide cultural and historical context. Some of this is in the following exhibit, but much more is in the essays on Praxiteles: “Misuses of Scholarship in the Making of the Myth” and  “Beyond the Dead End of Traditional and (Post)/Modernist Aesthetics”

http://www.naturesrights.com/Book%203%20The%20Varieties%20of%20Religious%20Delusion.pdf

See also my Blog which contains many essays on my art and that of others. Here:

https://markkoslowspaintingsthoughtandnature.wordpress.com/Staying Amazed- Final