America the Beautiful
I won’t whitewash my puzzlement. Can’t understand
why the people we’ve chosen to govern our land
Would consider it sane, for even a minute
to ever put toxic chemicals in it!
The prompt words today are whitewash, puzzlement and toxic.
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/02/06/fowc-with-fandango-whitewash/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/02/06/your-daily-word-prompt-puzzlement-february-6-2019/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/02/06/toxic/
And then the Town planning committees allow suburbs to be built over long-buried and forgotten toxic waste dumps. I recall a news story years back where one mother launched a battle to uncover the truth after her son and several other young children in her suburb had died of leukemia.
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Yes.. And remember Love canal?
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That name came to my mind — I wonder if it was the same story? Must Google.
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I am with you on that!
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Edward Hopper said all he wanted to do was paint sunlight on the side of a barn. American the Beautiful is achingly gorgeous stretches like this, grass, sky, simple nature. Love the photo and the sentiment.
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Thanks, Kaj. I grew up in South Dakota. Lots of sunlight, open space and barns.
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Reblogged this on Deep Depression in February.
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Kind of mind-boggling, isn’t it?
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So right
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