Every time I hear a story about the unemployment rate I wish someone would spend just a few seconds on the people that are not counted at in these numbers…freelancers. In the creative serves industries, many people are freelance writers, editors, illustrators, and designers. They don’t get unemployment and they are not looking for work in the traditional sense where it gets counted. They are invisible.

It would be great if somehow that could find it’s way into the conversation next time.

I find some set an example, such as this hunter, to be connected to nature in such a profound way, that it represents true love and respect for what we have here on this planet. I have heard people speak ill of hunting as they proceed through there lives, even as vegetarians, buying bottled water…using countless plastic bags…and pouring chemicals of all kinds down there drains and on their lawns. It seems people just don’t get it. “It” being the way our lives and the choices we make have an effect on the ecosystems around us.

I understand Robin’s intention of the questioning of art therapy for terrorists, but calling it “finger painting” is ridiculous and insulting. The creation of artistic visual work as representative of internalized emotions and ways of thinking/processing is a potent therapy form. It is a valid and powerful way for people to express what they are thinking and feeling, particularly when they will not or cannot in pure verbal conversation.

It’s Owen Bennett-Jones… Please!

Hey Steve I’m not exactly sure your meaning, but Lorelei, I want to make clear, I purposefully characterized it the way many Americans have,
and Owen (Bennett-Jones!)responded that the U.S. military says, as you say, it is successful.

carry on

R

I suggest that if one posts the logo of the BBC World Service and features the expertise of one of its distinguished News Hour presenters, a rundown paragraph which mangles his name (“Own Bennett Jones” as originally posted here) might draw notice from someone who appreciates your program and his programme… Yet as someone who has admired your work (for longer than your bio admits you’ve been doing it) is occasionally susceptible to channeling some combination of Edwin R. Newman & Andy Rooney.

About your interview with Steven Rinella I disagree with his comment about his issue with people who are against hunting yet eat meat. For me and I am sure many others it is not about the fact that an animal dies. It is the human factor. To have to slaughter animals as a job is one thing but I think it is very wrong to kill for pleasure. We live in a highly developed society in which the person who has to do this difficult deed is compensated by his/her salary. I am willing to bet that most hunters do not need to hunt for food and they kill mostly for the pleasure and fun that it brings them.
I am for the death penalty but I wouldn’t want someone who gets much pleasure to be doing the killing of prisoners. If I had to I would do the execution because it needs to be done but to do it voluntarily and to get pleasure and fun out of doing it is completely unfathomable to me.

Okay Steve, NOW I get it!!

didn’t see the typo – slash- mangling.

And you’re right! Time to update the bio!
How it flies..

R

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hey here and now producer. thanx for writing my comment so elequently. I’ve been an art therapist for nine years. I’ve experienced, not just misconceptions, but condescending snears redarding my profession(that I owe sallie mae many, many thousands for). As a softy therapist, I should be accustomed to responses I get from ‘non-believers.’ I know Robyn did not mean to belittle the profession, I do believe many people would not catch the ‘irony’of her comment, though.
I do LOVE her show and am actually listening to showes I missed during the week as i type.
Laura