Welcome 2021 ✨Good Riddance 2020 - You might be a pretty number but you were definitely of challenging substance. There’s so much I want to say but these words by Arundhati Roy that were shared by @__nitch today do it better. /// "Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to ‘normality', trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture. But the rupture exists. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it." /// Illustration from my book THE DOG THAT ATE THE WORLD where the animals dance after they have rebuilt a better world for everyone after life was forcefully changed for them forever. . . . . . . #TDTATW #thedogthatatetheworld published by @flyingeyebooks #sun #rebirth #thanks #dance #music #together #love #friendship #illustration #kidlit #kidlitart #illustrationartists #light #happynewyear #hope #challenges #happynewyear2021 #abetterworld #forthefuture #dobetter #thoughts #togetherwecan #startnow (at Happy New Year) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJhFJZEH_1W/?igshid=r1as21zgyam4
