{"id":12790,"date":"2019-09-15T11:32:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=12790"},"modified":"2019-09-15T12:00:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T19:00:43","slug":"a-graffiti-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2019\/09\/15\/a-graffiti-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"A Graffiti in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re in Chicago. Impressive in its glory, potholed at its fringes. Daughter Acacia and husband Mark came here from Seattle some years back to start a church, just west of downtown. They were offered a break–a trip to Napa with friends–and requested Anne’s services to watch the kids. I came along.<\/p>\n

Not that I had to be coaxed. I marvel at the children. And not just at these four, but all 16, spread around the country . . . all prospering in their place. I credit their parents, and see it all connected to a spiritual decision I made many years ago, before any of their parents were born.<\/p>\n

To keep myself occupied between activities, I looked over Mark’s expansive library. I took down Twelve Years a Slave<\/em> by Solomon Northup, first published, 1845. It’s a phenomenal work, autobiographical, well-written, and quite a juxtaposition, this life of ease and that one of horrors, not so long ago. I’m told there was a movie, but it would have been hard to watch. The book is sobering.<\/p>\n

Speaking of juxtaposition, I took a picture of a graffiti on a wall nearby. I can’t quite make sense of the graphic but the verbiage is blatant enough. Seems he got it half right, but only half.<\/p>\n

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Don’t know what Solomon Northup would have thought of it. In the end he was saved from his slavery, but not by himself, and never could have been.<\/p>\n

As I think about, it was rather the same with me. The situation was very different, of course, but there was a rescue. One that I couldn’t have affected myself. I’m very grateful, gathered now with some of the fruits of that decision, these days in Chicago.<\/p>\n

From here we travel on.<\/p>\n

P.S. We take pictures as we go. I’ve got a few on Facebook (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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