Michelangelo and my kids will haunt me
Bronwyn Lay November 23, 2009
In Eureka Street.
(http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=17720 or http://tinyurl.com/yjbfho5)
I have never had children, but Bronwyn's comments about motherhood and where it leads her take my breath away. It is really worth reading the whole article, but here is a small taster of what she says:
"If everyone at the Bella Center in Copenhagen in December was overwhelmed by the sorrow of ‘The Pieta’, the sorrow of the powerless, then the outcome would be brutal. Emissions would be cut by 100% the next day. We would be thrown into war-time mobilisation because everything we thought we had created would seem irrelevant compared to the pain millions of ‘The Pieta’s’ were facing. Economies would go into transitional panic. Monies would be diverted to the developing nations at the coalface. Whole industries would collapse and geopolitics would be thrown into a spin. This will not happen because ‘The Pieta’ being inscribed in every mind at that table is too revolutionary a thought, too irrational, and too sentimental."It appeals to my "political side". More of her writing is artistic.
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