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by MNLSeptember 3, 201811:00 pm

Senryu : labour day

Brewhouse mural, Tucson, photo by M. LaFreniere, all rights reserved — Brewhouse mural, Tucson, done in the style of the 1930s, celebrating farmers and the working class

holiday for work
all the things everyone does
go to the circus

senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere

I just watched the Greatest Showman about PT Barnum from his working class roots to a poverty-stricken orphan to the top of the world back down again and back up.

I love musicals. It’s a tale of an open-minded man who really really wants to be rich. In pursuing high class society, he starts to take on the worse of the narrow-mindedness to get accepted which of course he never will be. His wife, who came that class and happily left it, understood that money buys neither love, happiness or acceptance because she knew that world. She understood it’s better to be loved by a precious few than to chase after the adulation of millions. It took Barnum a little longer to get there.

Barnum’s inner journey is set against a backdrop of unusual people who have to face prejudice everyday and find a home in the world he created. And a snippy journalist understands Barnum’s legacy is not the show, but the way he is the first to bring together a diverse group of people in a setting where others, even royalty, accept them — at a time when being different could get you maimed or killed.

From Amazon:

Greatest Showman, Hugh Jackman (HD or SD)

Cecile B. DeMille’s Greatest Show on Earth, Charlton Heston

The Greatest Showman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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Cathy Kennedy (Author Curious as a Cathy) on September 4, 2018 at 6:39 am

Mary,

Today, I shared day one of the lyrical challenge. You’re welcome to link up with us on the 4M dance floor if you’d like. I have not seen The Greatest Showman. I did not make the connection that it’s a story about the Barnum & Bailey circus. I always wanted to see that act. When I was a kid, we’d get smaller traveling carnivals and circuses passing through our town. I remember the carnival had freak shows, like Siamese twins and I always felt so horrible for these poor children placed on public display as a spectacular for ridicule or amusement. I can’t imagine how awful that kind of life was for people born differently than the said ‘norm’. I can’t say things have changed a lot today because we’re all guilty of being stand-offish to a degree to those who aren’t the same as us in some way. Wouldn’t it be grand if we could see our fellow mankind the way God does? The world would be a happier place if we were more like Him. Thanks for sharing and for your visits!

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  MNL on September 8, 2018 at 5:23 pm
  
  The flip side of the public display is that they weren’t being hidden away at home, taught that everyone would hate them and make fun of them and that they should be ashamed of themselves for being born different. In the circus, they were accepted by each other, treated as normal by each other, being able to make friends, fall in love, have families. They were in a community. It was not like other jobs. At the end of the day, they did not go off to their private homes to not see each other until the next working day. They lived in the same place and socialized together. That community offered them protection from the vast majority that would denigrate them. And while the public did enter their community, the public had to pay so that they would have a way to earn income where some of them would not be able to otherwise because no one would hire them. Nowadays that need for community is probably replaced by the internet — people can create income without ever meeting a person, they can “make friends” and chat without a person noticing that they are covered with hair from head to toe. So I expect nowadays they are isolated as they were before the carnie but have virtual friends and support through virtual means. The real problem is that the public as a whole hasn’t changed — a lot of people would still denigrate people who look different. Until the majority changes, their lives are going to be hard.
  
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Michael on September 3, 2018 at 11:34 pm

Loving the brewhouse one particularly it really does remind me of some of that wonderful communist era artwork

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  MNL on September 8, 2018 at 5:09 pm
  
  I agree. One of the things I liked about the 1930s too is that was when murals and other large public art took off in the USA because not only was “art” depicting the working class but there was a movement to share “art” with the working class whereas before it was seen as the territory of the very very rich people.
  
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