A
woman artist/activist's creative responses to disability, world
events and life. Follow her daily online photo-journal; decorate
canes and walkers; connect art to activism; experience the healing
power of poems and stories.
My Journal
Creative
Disability
Storytelling
My Life
Raging
Grannies Without Borders
"O
Beautiful Gaia": a CD project
A
Year of Poems--2003
A
Year of Poems--2004
Reflections
on Tragedy & War: Year One & Year Two
My
brother Rabih Haddad
Activism
101: taking to the streets
Attitudinal
Activism: thinking like an activist
Think Globally; Act Locally--Library
Solidarity
Word Art: pen and ink activism
Ahummbay:
a new planet
Gallery
of Paintings
Journal
Pantoum Poems
Sacred
World Web: a fable
Music Festivals
Mosh
Pit Mama
Freedom's
Song: a fable
Meditation
Mandalas
Sacred
Stones®
A
Crone's Credo
Differently
Abled Koans
Whatever
You See: a story
Morning
in San Francisco
Millennium
Musings: a poem
Gift
Bookmark
Links
All words
and graphics on this site are original. You are welcome to use
them in the spirit with which they were created, but never for
commercial use. Please give proper attribution and, if appropriate,
provide a link to this site. A large community of women and men
continue to add to the photographs seen here, especially in my
journal. My gratitude to all who offer support, ideas, instruction
and forbearance during the daily maintenance of this space. And
special thanks to those persons willing to have their names and
faces appear in my journal.
As the national and international fear of
dissent grows stronger, so too do voices like mine who dare to
present alternative ways of looking at things and responding to
the challenges of the times. May my sisters and brothers around
the world find this web site to be a home for non-violent dissent.
Of particular interest to you will be my daily Journal, Reflections on Tragedy & War:
Year One & Year
Two,
My
Brother Rabih Haddad, Word Art, Activism 101, Attitudinal
Activism,
and Raging
Grannies Without Borders. In the words of Dorothy Day:
"As you come to know the seriousness of our situation--the
war, the racism, the poverty in the world--you come to realize
it is not going to be changed just by words or demonstrations.
It's a question of risking your life. It's a question of
living your life in drastically different ways."
©1999-2006 Patricia Lay-Dorsey. Please use with attribution
--drawing of Patricia on scooter by ©2001 Maggie Szczepanska,
Windsor, ON
--dancing at National Women's Music Festival, July 24, 2004
--in solitary protest at White House, September 5, 2002