On January 24, 2009 I dreamed that I wanted to take a class and I understood that it was meeting in an interesting-looking building. I had trouble finding it so I stopped and got out of my car and went for a walk. The neighborhood had small one-story houses that looked like they had been built in the 1920’s or earlier. The houses and lawns were well maintained and there was a sense of calm security. It was in Kansas City, Missouri, in a small community untouched by commercialism. An African-American young lady explained that this neighborhood had been protected from payday and title loan companies, video stores and billboards advertising gun shows that turn communities shoddy. This was a comfortable community where families in clean homes lived within their means.

 

Inner City Brigadoon 

Approx. 15” x 18”, glass beads, silk thread. 2009. Photograph by Bret Gustafson. Courtesy of Janet and Marshall Miller.

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