https://eclecticlight.co/2017/06/28/totems-and-trees-emily-carrs-paintings-1937-1945/

Over this period, Carr had a growing concern over the deforestation which was occurring on the West Coast, and paralleled the earlier encroachments and destruction by Europeans of the First Nations cultures.

Odds and Ends (1939) is another of her most important paintings, not just from this period, but from her whole career. It shows the young and very high trees which were left behind as being of no commercial value after felling. Carr described the low stubs left on the stumps as being the trees’ tombstones.

López Obrador said the United States should spend some of the money sent to Ukraine on economic development in Latin America.

“They (the U.S.) don’t do anything,” he said. “It’s more, a lot more, what they authorize for the war in Ukraine than what they give to help with poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean.”

He called for a U.S. program “to remove blockades and stop harassing independent and free countries, an integrated plan for cooperation so the Venezuelans, Cubans, Nicaraguans and Ecuadorans, Guatemalans and Hondurans wouldn’t be forced to emigrate.”

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/blake-elohim-creating-adam-n05055

Elohim is a Hebrew name for God. This picture illustrates the Book of Genesis: ‘And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground’. Adam is shown growing out of the earth, a piece of which Elohim holds in his left hand.

For Blake the God of the Old Testament was a false god. He believed the Fall of Man took place not in the Garden of Eden, but at the time of creation shown here, when man was dragged from the spiritual realm and made material.

a culture of complacency has begun to take root in many of our federal institutions, which treat access to information requests as nuisances, disregard legal obligations, and tolerate undue delays.