Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization that facilitates the creation of art by offering vital support to the artists who produce it.I will keep reminding you about them because they may be your salvation one day and because like all non-profit organizations they can only survive with the reciprocal support of the community they serve.
Fractured Atlas saves artists lives by providing increased access to health insurance and community resources. An individual membership in Fractured Atlas is only $75/year and, since they are a membership organization, their advocacy voice gets stronger whenever someone signs up and sends in their check.
Maybe you should scrape together some coins and join today?
Adam Forest Huttler is the founder and Executive Director of Fractured Atlas. He also keeps a terrific blog. When he and his colleagues Emily Watts, Juliana Steele, Kristine Nordine, Courtney D. Jones, Dianne Dibecella, Eugenie Cowan, Marie Ortiz and Adam Natale are not holding up their little corner of the world, they are artists with dual lives, just like you and me.
Go lend a hand.
Meta: Weight by Jeanette Winterson is a book about an encounter between Atlas and Heracles at the "hinge of the world." Like most myths, it's really a commentary on our lives now and I left my body while reading it.
A snippet:
"(Heracles) comes for help... Heaven and earth fold away from each other, but here they lie edge to edge. To this doubleness he comes for help, this man of double nature, the god in him folded back in human flesh.
‘What kind of help?’
‘It’s a long story.’
‘I’m not going anywhere.’
‘Well,’ said Heracles. ‘If you’ve got all the time in the world, I’ll begin.’ "
A hefty excerpt from Weight is available online and the full text is available from Amazon.
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