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Hello Tim
Thanks very much for your kind and encouraging words to the community. I was noticed about it! That was indeed a surprise. You are a good friend. And it is fashinating that somebody on the other side of the globe is speaking kindly of me. and my art. The net has really showed how the world is coming to your door.
Since you are a thoughtful person I wish to share something with you.I hope you have time to read it. Something that has given me a new wonderful feeling starting with a refreshing insight: We are all africans.!!!Wow!
So...
I have got an interesting piece of work for another nearby museum.: To shape some figures showing early humans,or humanoids ending with modern man,(popularly called the Cro Magnon man) thereby using fossilised African sculls and in some cases parts of sceletons and pictures of reconstructions. You must have heared about Lucy, found by Donald Johansson.(Almost Swedish) Lucy is classified as an "afarine". Many more early hominides have been found, during the last 30 years. Reading about them I was taught that modern man was fully developed about 195 000 years ago, in Africa!I didn't know. I learned long time ago about Cro Magnon men who painted animals and shamans in grottos in France and Spain. And stopped there. But now-
This has touched me deeply and given me a new and fuller sense of "belonging", a feeling of unifying, with all mankind,and especially Africans! Really these discoveries fills my mind all the 27 hrs. I am going to use this in my art somehow. - This comes on top of the Bahai Faiths assuring statement: Man has always been man, but has not always looked like a man.". And, "Mankind is but one family", "the fruits of one tree" "the leaves of one branch". With Bahai, religion is indeed not oldfashioned and sagalike any more.It corresponds to modern thinking. Lucy has a very human body, but her face is rather apelike. Lately I read that she also had rudimentary language. Because she could stand upright. All depends on that.
This will help science and religion unite in harmony. This unification is important. Don't you think?It will be like a sound wind going round the world,sweeping away the animosity between the two.
I would appreciate your opinion.and your thoughts. Those above are mine.
This was again a long letter, but I assure you, I cannot help it.I must tell somebody.
Bye for today
and thanks again for being my friend over there.
Merry Christmas and a happy new and prosperous Year
Laila
in a snowless Sweden
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