opposites

So, I'm home in the states for the moment, in North Carolina. The Illustration Friday topic this week is opposites, and I'm posting a couple of sketches from my travel journal. For me it's not about the fact that people are different but rather that I just traveled from the "opposite" side of the world. I tend to see how we are the same; but it is interesting how clothing and um rules about smoking in public change as you fly from one side of the world to another.

The first question everyone has asked me on my return is if I am concerned for my safety because of the current crisis in Lebanon. Well. I am not about to turn my blog into a political forum. But just from a purely pragmatic point of view I think that most Americans need to sit down and study a map of the Middle East. And stop lumping all of "those" people together, there is as much or more variation "there" as there is "here" when it comes to politics, religion, education and socio economic class. It does not further the cause of world peace to vilify our global neighbors.

My “Best of Post” will have to wait until I get home to Jeddah because I forgot the CD.

In Peace, Kate.