It Really Matters

America, please be informed as you enter the polling booth this year. Which ever side of the aisle your allegiance, don't just make your decision based on political spots on television. Do some reading, watch news programs other than Fox or MSNBC. Use your brain and don't be lead around by the nose by super pacs. You may feel your vote doesn't matter but remember there are people in countries around the world who don't even have a vote or whose vote is cheated by corrupt officials. Your vote matters right down to local school superintendent. Wake up, America.

PAINTINGS BY CHERYL ERNST WELLS

Color studies in acrylics.

NEW SUGGESTED READING LIST

February and March: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
925 pages of alternative reality Murakami style.
Best hard cover jacket design ever.

JANUARY READING LIST

THE UNTOUCHABLE by John Banville. The witty and weighty journal of an Irish spy for the Russians during World War II. THE GASTRONOMICAL ME by MFK Fisher. The puff pastry memoirs of an American foody in beleaguered Europe during the 30's and 40's. BLEAK HOUSE by Charles Dickens What can I write that hasn't been better written by others about this novel by the great master of human understanding?

2012

I thought this was the year the world was suppose to end according to the Mayan calendar. Not so sure I would mind right now. Foolishly, I thought life would be slower and easier when I reached my sixties. Only gotten faster, more complicated and more difficult. But as my Uncle Buddy used to say, "Eat your mush and shush.". So, here's to 2012 and whatever's coming. Let 'er wind!