AviBeeJan 10, 2023
C in ⁦@[email protected]⁩’ #DemocraticABC stood for Constitution. What does the word mean for you as we fill the empty stool standing in for everyone who’s not been in the room?
#illustration #art #Constitution
Show threadAviBeeJan 11, 2023
D in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for Democracy. Having grown up without it, I see it in every aspect of life. What about you?
D called for Delaware‘a peach blossoms.
#art #illustration #democracy
Show threadAviBeeJan 12, 2023
E in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for Economic Opportunities. I think they are created where money meets free time and relevant connections. What do you say?
Tennessee’s irises - @[email protected]’ state with the most Es #art #illustration #politics
Show threadAviBeeJan 13, 2023
F in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for Freedom. For me Freedoms and responsibilities are inextricably connected. What do you think?
F called of course for Florida’s orange blossoms. #art #illustration #freedom #politics
Show threadAviBeeJan 14, 2023
G in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for Governing. Often Governing is equated w/the management of a big company. I think this definition, thanks to our tendency to reduce everything to a bottom line, is too limiting. Your thoughts?
Georgia’s Cherokee Rose
#art #illustration
Show threadAviBeeJan 15, 2023
H in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for Hopefulness. I think hopefulness requires a vision of a better future, which requires the language, time, and space of mind to form it. Your thoughts?
Hibiscus for @[email protected]’s Hawaii.
#art #illustration #hopefulness #politics
Show threadAviBeeJan 16, 2023
I in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for Inclusion. Inclusion needs to happen. That said I think diversity, equity, and equality create an area of conflict that inclusion needs to defuse to be advantageous to society.
Your thoughts?
#art #illustration #inclusion #politics
Show threadAviBeeJan 17, 2023

J in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for Justice. History is written by the winners, aka the powerful. We might say the same thing about justice. Your thoughts?

New Jersey’s Common Meadow Violets remind me of one of my fav Jersey natives @[email protected]
#art #illustration #politics

Show threadAviBeeJan 18, 2023

K in @[email protected]’ #democraticABC stood for knowledge. Stop the spread of knowledge (facts) and you end democracy. Don’t you think there’s a connection?

Kansas’ sunflowers.

#art #illustration #democracy #knowledge #politics #bookbans

Show threadAviBeeJan 19, 2023
L in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for Liberty. It’s thanks to the fact that the English were once ruled by French Vikings that the same concept has two different words, both completely English today. Does this diversity limit your freedom?
#art #illustration #politics
Show threadAviBeeJan 20, 2023
M in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for Maturity. #Maturity shows in planning and consequential thinking. How much of it exists in today’s world in which everyone lacks time?
Maine’s White Pine cone & tassel.
#art #illustration #politics
Show threadAviBeeJan 21, 2023
N in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for #Normalcy. While I understand the sentiment, aren’t normalcy and diversity two antagonistic concepts?
Lilacs, yucca, sage, goldenrod, and dogwood colored outside the lines.
#art #illustration #politics
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O in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for #Opportunity. Opportunity is where luck meets the ability (money, time, space of mind, right kind of friends/acquaintances) to act on it. Creating O for all means to improve the ability side. Or do you disagree?
#art #illustration
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Show threadAviBeeJan 23, 2023
P in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for #People. #Democracy is gov’ment of the people, by the people, for the people. Who makes up the people? Are companies really people?
Pennsylvania’s Mountain Laurel.
#art #illustration #politics
Show threadAviBeeJan 24, 2023
Q in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for Quality of Life. It’s different from standard of living as it’s not solely focused on the bottom line. What a concept! What decides most your quality of life?
No states with q.
#art #illustration #politics #qualityoflife
Show threadAviBeeJan 25, 2023
R in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for #Reason. As a pile of cells circling a pebble on a grain of dust in the eternity of space we need reason in so many ways. No?
Violets for Rhodes Island.
#art #illustration #politics
Show threadAviBeeJan 26, 2023
S in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for #Substance. But how are we appreciating the substance of a matter if our attention span is shorter than a NY minute?
Yellow Yasmin for my host home state SC and Pasque Flower for SD.
#art #illustration #politics
Show threadAviBeeJan 27, 2023

T in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for #Triumph. Is triumph a place or is it the path?
Iris for Tennessee.

#art #illustration #politics

Show threadAviBeeJan 27, 2023
@[email protected] Whenever I come back to this painting as inspiration I know think of @[email protected] @[email protected]
Show threadAviBeeJan 28, 2023
U in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for #understanding. Trying to understand is a sign of acceptance and respect. But is understanding dependent on agreeing?
Sego lilies for Utah.
#art #illustration #politics
Show threadAviBeeJan 29, 2023
V in @[email protected] ‘ #DemocraticABC stood for #votingrights. Voting rights are the essence of democracy. Is a state in which attempts to prevent some from voting meet other who can’t be bothered still a democracy?
Red clover for Vermont.
#art #illustration #politics
Show threadAviBeeJan 30, 2023
W in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for #WorkingFamilies. Families of whatever shape are like little societies. Not supporting them means not supporting our future.
Indian Paintbrush for Wyoming and Rhododendron for Washington and West VA.
#art #illustration #politics
Show threadAviBeeJan 31, 2023
X in @[email protected]’ #DemocraticABC stood for #Xenial. Xenial means hospitable, esp. to visiting strangers and foreigners. Are you?
Bluebonnets are the state flower of TeXas.
#art #illustration #politics