Sometimes you really have to work for an image and sometimes it’s just there talking to you, which was the case of a Mother and Daughter on the first leg of their journey, first New York, Washington D.C. and yet another trip back to New York. For this pair, it’s both a bonding of Mother and Daughter but also a bonding of all things important to be a woman, no doubt as they age this memory and solidarity will not.
Mother & Daughter
New York Signs
Two Dollars for a little Love.
The moment you leave the subway you see people with signs on the platforms, walking up the stairs or on the sidewalk above, although I was an hour and a half early so was everyone else. Everyone seemed so polite, including the NYPD that I had to wonder if I was at a protest at all. This was not a protest like I had seen in the 60’s or even “Occupy Wall Street”. These were all the people that voted and their vote didn’t count.
Mr. Trump…...
America
I'll say a Prayer for you ...
Along the way I met a man with a top hat who had a heart condition; “…I shouldn’t be out in this cool weather, but I have to-I can’t afford my medicine”. He’s my age, that statement is a cold gripping reality-the knowledge that his very protest may give him more anxiety than his heart has the strength for. Fifteen feet from him was a woman in an electric wheelchair, I only thought who is going to come to her aid if a battery fails, the cart stops working-will someone get her a cab-will a cab even take her.
Amongst these questions, it was a great night for New York; the event sponsors Michael Moore, Alex Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Mark Ruffalo and many, many others. Many signs echoed one theme, this is not about Trump-it’s about morals and character, how we see our self and what will define us.
"NO"
If there is one thing I’ll sleep on tonight it’s; “…I shouldn’t be out in this cool weather, but I have to-I can’t afford my medicine”. JPN