Rich-Mond
Days before, days now, days captured.
A small radius town on the Indiana line, shaped with a rich history. Beyond the rich-man histories that erected these crafted buildings, the Quaker history, the jazz history, the forgotten histories. There are plaques and even museums in memory of some these memories, but have the past days planted enough seeds of peace and creativity to revive the story, can those seeds enable this generation to also shape a rich history for the future Richmond community?
Across the nation homes such as these fall to crumbles, as the cities build high rises and small shack shelters between freeways. The “location, location, location” has shaped our mass minds to overlook the small and flock to the “opportunity.” Before that, was it the community that made the opportunity? Now more than ever…the corporations make the opportunities, but really aren’t they also just a small community?
A collective force, connecting their mind’s resources and enabling others to add value to the collective force. Can we rise from the ashes of a burnt structure, from the economics, politics, to the education structures…they seem to be crumbling in front of our eyes and without collective action. We may one day take pictures of our crumbling cities and barren fields, just as we take images of the small towns and forgotten stories. Struggling to survive, our human needs, can we start there? Water, roofs, food, Earth. Prioritize that for our collective force?
Not all doom and gloom, we can see the possibilities and some still believe in those optimist ideas and they contemplate ways to see those ideas thrive. Yet, living day to day in desperation and near starvation, a majority of the society isn’t fit to consider the option of them living in another system. When the needs of life are so often handed down from the top down buildings, we gaze to their pockets in hopes they’ll shake some crumbs from their luxurious britches. Instead of seeing that we collectively can build the alternatives. If only our human needs were met, would the World be able to breathe a little bit? Would our eyes gaze to praise what we have and not desire what we see the “luxury” lifestyles chase?
As time goes on, there will always be a moment to capture—a moment to inspire, to be with. Stay present in these times, let’s all collectively send praises to the natural World that allows our collective Human World the opportunity to even imagine what the word collective has meant and can mean moving forward. We’ve built many “things,” together let’s build beautiful solutions to meet our human needs. With craftsmanship and honest caring in all of our “ships”.