joy, battle
on monday and tuesday they tarred the roof of our building at work. today it rained. tonight it leaked. corey and i were working late. the ceiling tile bulged and dripped. corey put buckets underneath. the ceiling tile buckled and fell in pieces splat! into the buckets and the water poured in, right in the middle of our front office. it never leaked there before.
so i came home late and w had left the tv on, otherwise i would never have watched the amazing life of Letizia Battaglia:
"Sicilian photographer Letizia Battaglia was director of Palermo's daily newspaper, L'Ora, during the height of the Mafia killings in the 1970s and 80s. Her work from this period made her a leading member of the campaign against the Mafia and helped change the life of the city."
http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?b?7857831144904575000
"Letizia Battaglia can be tagged with many labels - photographer, political activist, feminist, environmentalist - none of which adequately convey who she is. Since the 1970s Battaglia has been documenting life in her native Sicily - its tragedies and violence, its stoicism and dignity. Rarely has an artist been bestowed with such an appropriate name: Letizia means joy, Battaglia means battle, and these two poles define the emotional territory that her work inhabits. While she started out as a photojournalist, Battaglia transcends the confines of that field and imbues every image with a timeless nobility and humanity. For several years she stopped taking pictures and officially entered the world of politics, standing for election and serving on the city council. She was instrumental in saving and reviving the historic center of Palermo, established her own publishing house and is deeply involved in working for the rights of women and, most recently, prisoners."
http://dsc.gc.cuny.edu/part/part8/reviews/shore.html