Looks Like Spring
We live very close to Reed College. The weather was beautiful and spring-like this weekend. I noticed that the students at Reed had come out of hibernation and interesting things, in addition to the crocusses, sprouting on the lawn adjacent to the street.
There was the geodesic dome:
And then there is this sculpture, titled “Faith-based Missile System.”
The most poignant display, however, is this one.
We stopped and talked to one of the students putting out the flags. They had been working on it for 3-4 hours and still had many to go. I will get another photo when it is completed. It is very sobering to view these flags and reflect on their meaning.
Please, let’s stop the madness!
March 5th, 2007 at 6:22 am
Damn, those sorts of graphic displays really show things that just reading the numbers never will. Sobering, indeed.
March 5th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Gerrie, thank you so much for the flags. thelma
March 5th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
mom, that looks like an amazing display on the RC lawn. wow!
March 7th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
the numbers really are mindbogging, my cousin has 2 sons in the british army one is in Iraq as I write this, thanks for showing Gerrie,
March 8th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
I didn’t see your post til after I’d uploaded mine this afternoon on the same subject! It’s an amazingly powerful statement, isn’t it? Jerry and I noticed a stash of additional, unused flags by Eliot Hall, with a sign inviting folks to plant some of their own. The simple gesture of sticking those wires in the ground, one by one, was really a sobering experience. Made you think about each individual death that the flags represented.
December 5th, 2007 at 8:13 am
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