{"id":1954,"date":"2013-12-11T02:53:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T07:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2014-11-26T16:01:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T21:01:55","slug":"contrasts-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/contrasts-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Contrasts &#038; Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Art has the ability to transcend borders.<\/p>\n<p>A cardinal flew by during my run yesterday. Watching it&#8217;s contrasting red flame against the peaceful winter landscape, my thoughts turned to the golden grassy homeland of my friends in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Contrasts and borders.<\/p>\n<p>My friend and I often discuss the similarities our families share. The love of a great family, simplicity of rural life.\u00a0Her father, a country music fan, harmonizes his rich South African voice to\u2018Country Roads\u2019 on my Dad\u2019s CD.\u00a0\u00a0Our fathers singing together, a half a globe apart.<\/p>\n<p>Among the abundant similarities, Freedom isn\u2019t one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Not the kind of freedom I have known as a Canadian.<\/p>\n<p>Six years ago when Kenny was brutally beaten in his own home, my heart broke.He survived the attack, with the fortitude of a man much younger than his 70 plus years. His strength, fed by terror the five attackers would discover where his wife and mother in law hid.<\/p>\n<p>It was not the first time they had experienced violence.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the thank you card I received didn\u2019t speak of anger or bitterness. \u00a0It resonated with love and gratitude.<\/p>\n<p>Overjoyed their daughter had traveled from Canada to \u2018build us up again with fresh meals\u2019 Marina wrote. \u201cWe are thankful our daughter lives in a much safer place\u201d.\u201cWe have such a beautiful country,\u201d she continued\u201d with excellent weather. We hope it won\u2019t be spoilt by unnecessary violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cART AND SPORT HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD, THE POWER TO INSPIRE, THE POWER TO UNITE PEOPLE IN A WAY LITTLE ELSE CAN.\u2019ART AND SPORT CAN CREATE HOPE WHERE THERE WAS ONCE ONLY DESPAIR. THEY ARE INSTRUMENTS FOR PEACE, EVEN MORE POWERFUL THAN GOVERNMENTS\u201d. <em>Nelson R Mandela\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DSC05686.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1965\" alt=\"DSC05686\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DSC05686-300x236.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DSC05686-300x236.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DSC05686-1024x806.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DSC05686-380x300.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Swaziland 11&#215;14 Original oil<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fire-water-close-up1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1959\" alt=\"fire &amp; water close up\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fire-water-close-up1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fire-water-close-up1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fire-water-close-up1-1024x769.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fire-water-close-up1-399x300.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Fire &amp; Water 9&#215;12 Original Oil<\/p>\n<p>A special thanks to Marina &amp; Kenny( married 56 years) for allowing me to share their story~ you continue to inspire me every day like my own family, with your gracious hearts &amp; strength of spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art has the ability to transcend borders. A cardinal flew by during my run yesterday. Watching it&#8217;s contrasting red flame against the peaceful winter landscape, my thoughts turned to the golden grassy homeland of my friends in South Africa. Contrasts &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/contrasts-borders\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2925,"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnbanning.com\/newsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}