I was having an identity crisis so I took my old profile down.
I prefer to mediate the world through a camera or written words than to deal with it directly.
I do not like the way the world is and I do not think it is part of any grand design. To the degree humans have shaped it, I sometimes marvel but mostly weep. How can we invent such marvellous things and then tell the huge majority they cannot have them? I have my nose pressed against the glass wanting what I have been taught to want. But if everyone else can't have it, I don't want it.
I treasure my education, my computer and the cameras I am privileged to use.
From each according to his ability to each according to his need, said Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto. I find that a worthy credo and try to follow it while still holding to the kindness in my human nature.
I try to see dyslexia as a gift and hope I don't harm myself or others by getting some stupid little thing backwards.
My daddy always told me "You will come to grief, little girl" and generally he has been right on the money.
I'm Female and Open.
injusticebusters
Saskatoon, Canada
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A bit more about Sheila Steele...
| Occupation: |
writer, webmaster, injusticebuster |
| Interests: |
music,
pop culture,
science,
society,
the law
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| Favorite Books & Authors: |
Doris Lessing,
Canopus in Argos Archives,
B. Traven,
The Death Ship,
Trotsky,
History of the Russian Revolution,
Neal Stephenson,
The Diamond Age,
Margaret Atwood,
Fay Weldon,
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| Favorite Movies, Stars & Directors: |
Norman Jewison,
Spike Lee,
Michael Moore,
Oliver Stone,
Stephen Frears,
Robert Altman,
Mike Leigh,
Curtis Hansen,
Dave Eggers
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| Favorite Music & Artists: |
Eminem,
The Tragically Hip,
Immortal Technique,
early Pretenders,
Joni Mitchell,
Buffy Sainte-Marie,
Robby Robertson,
Chuck Berry,
Elvis,
Game,
Kanye West
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Testimonials
PhylG says:
"I have been very proud to know Sheila through Flickr, and am even prouder of the work she has done in her life. I loved when she would suddenly pop up to comment about one of my cats, or other photos, and I was always keenly interested in her own photos, on everything from cats to protests. It has been a great privilege to have had even my brief contact with someone I consider to be one of the greatest Canadians."
nuanc says:
"To say that Sheila takes pictures of her world is a vast understatement. The Samuel Pepys of flickr, she will turn her lens to anything and everything and, in doing so, chronicles not only what wants to be seen but also what needs to be seen. Not always (though often) pretty or pleasant, Sheila's unflinching image-diary of the early 21st century is detailed and intriguing and often, just plain fun."
leeontheroad says:
"Sheila is an artist of the everyday, an everyman and -woman's photojournalist. In recording the world about her, she has a keen eye for the ironic and the poignant, the beauty in apparent ugliness and the rampant ugliness in what passes for beauty. She knows the world has gone mad, but hers is a genial presence, flecked with a wicked sense of humor that is a rare joy."
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