Fear and fences

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If you have nothing to fear you do not build a wall, a fence, put up cameras and have armed police.

If you lead by example, if you stay true to your values, do what is humane, behave decently, respect others and if you make a difference in an inspirational and honest way, then you have nothing to fear.

Fear creates barriers, physical and mental ones. Fear creates extremes such as lies, hate, anger, violence, and also apathy, acceptance of injustice.

Outside of the home of the great British ‘freedom and democracy’ stood a fence, cameras, lines of police, and no sign of the leader that all of that is there to ‘protect’.

It’s not about politics, it is about decency and humanity. None of that can be built behind fear and fences.

We need to build alternatives, we need to take down fences, physical and virtual ones, to unite as the human race against injustice. A world for all not just a tiny privileged few.

If you believe in the human race, then act and do not accept being controlled and enslaved by just a tiny few.

Colour by numbers

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Colouring by numbers maybe fun, once or even twice, if that’s the only colouring book you’ve got and your stuck on a long journey with little choice.

Life is not meant to be a colour by numbers book, but for many that is what life has become, following a series of numbered patterns given to us by others.

Take your pencils and go create art. Art that requires imagination. The world is a limitless place when you shrug off the formulas, restrictions, and certainty.

Risk it, make your own art and don’t be a number.