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The Painting Journalist

While at the Louisville chapter of the SPJ program on Thursday night, I was pleased to make the acquaintance of a fellow blogger named Ashley Cecil. She produces an amazing blog by combining her love for painting with journalistic endeavors.

While describing what she does, she uses the term "social justice" to describe what she hopes to highlight on her blog. I cringe at that phrase because, truth be told, social justice is most often harshly metered by Darwinistic human apathy. I would simply call what she does an artistic approach to invoking human kindness. No political party on this planet has the market cornered on encouraging human kindness; therefore, I see her efforts as outside of typical political partisanship.

You absolutely MUST visit her blog, "The Painting Journalist." The tagline is "describing the world with a paintbrush;" however, she is describing the world firsthand with a flair for words as well as for the paintbrush. I do believe she is unaware of her way with words. Her stories and her art are more magazine quality than blog quality. Her paintings are for sale and she donates some of that money to charitable organizations.

What an amazing and noteworthy blog she has created! As she succeeds in writing and painting her world, she brings us all forward as kinder human beings. I wish Ashley all the best in making her blog a rewarding fulltime endeavor.

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