Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: August 2005

Jacob Lawrence, "The Life of Frederick Douglass No. 20" (1939) — Jacob Lawrence, The Life of Frederick Douglass No. 20. Frederick Douglass left America to lecture in Great Britain. Here he met some of the most progressive and liberal-minded men in the English speaking world. He made a great speech on Covent Garden Theatre on August 7, 1846, in which he told of the people he represented-how at that moment there were three million colored slaves in the United States. (1939)

Workbook: August, 2005

August 31, 2005: "Some people sit around and wait for the world to poke them."
August 30, 2005: You feel as Frodo did in the movie after the Ring was destroyed...
August 29, 2005: "The Lord is a pretty intense chick magnet."
August 28, 2005: Suchaplace...
August 27, 2005: The adults in your early life, with their aversion to finding things out.
August 26, 2005: Images.
August 25, 2005: Smile.
August 24, 2005: Your friend's face is looking so... puffy.
August 23, 2005: The wedding party has run out of sodas.
August 22, 2005: "The Beatles were so talented..."
August 21, 2005: "You take up too much of the world, dude."
August 20, 2005: Fear of becoming like them.
August 19, 2005: I asked her once...
August 18, 2005: To invent an answer, rather than research the true answer.
August 17, 2005: Young girls, ten, eleven, standing before a large screen TV in the electronics store.
August 16, 2005: God, how sad and tired she looked...
August 15, 2005: School bus, urban streets...
August 14, 2005: "There, there," he says, consolingly...
August 13, 2005: In the bedroom, multiple portable alarm clocks...
August 12, 2005: "Who are you people, and what are you doing in here?"
August 11, 2005: The cries of crows.
August 10, 2005: Students, college age, earnest faces, backpacks, gathered in a group around you.
August 9, 2005: Death.
August 8, 2005: A woman carries you in the pool, swimming gracefully on her back with you in her arms.
August 7, 2005: You're swimming in an outdoor swimming pool.
August 6, 2005: Family politics.
August 5, 2005: In dreams you often pedal your car as if it were a bicycle...
August 4, 2005: A line of businessmen in suits queues for the lift.
August 3, 2005: Late afternoon light throws long shadows down a narrow concrete alley.
August 2, 2005: Slack-looking fattish balding fellow in a black shirt flecked with cigarette ash.
August 1, 2005: The major change, or the most obvious, is that she's more assertive.