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Dear Russ and Brad, I do not presume to know if this was part of a test -- or happy circumstance. Your trust in allowing me to proceed at my own pace is allowing things to creative fruition I had not anticipated. I am truly blessed to be working on this with you -- for you. One of my motives in the JIMMY JET project was to create something non-political -- as my hands are dirtied with such topics on a daily basis. But the care and welfare of children -- any child is probably the only valid political topic there is. There is a current environemntal ad campaign, "One-ify" that says "There is only one boy -- only one girl -- only one sky..." Jesus' parable about the good shepherd focus' on one lost sheep. I mentioned Big Valley hero Roy Rogers as having a unique handshake deal with his business manager over a lifetime. He was unique in another way as well -- long before it was made fashionable by Hollywood celebrities to adopt children under the limelight, he and Dale did it without fanfare. They adopted half a dozen! Where am I going with this? Back to something forgotten again -- My UNICEF program left in limbo, circa 1996: "The Children Of the World are OUR children." I am not a fan of the UN -- nor am I big on nationalism. This presents a profound inner conflict for myself as I am quite often the lone-geek saluting our flag alone in public. But there is something regal and exciting about a flag snapping in the breeze. When it is your own flag it stirs the emotions. When there is a parade of flags it stirs the world. More effort goes into the opening and closing ceremonies of an Olympiad than the rest of the games themselves. Everyone love a parade. I believe by adopting a "child" version of each nations flag we can accomplish several things at once. We will appear to be open and inviting to the ALL children of the world -- non-exclusively -- and by using the child version we can take the high road so-to-speak and bypass the political world -- especially concerning those countries at odds with ours -- for the sake of the children there as well. Let us "suffer the children to come to us." I do not mean to be blasphemous when I suggest that by "lifting him up" (Jimmy Jet) we could "draw all the world's children to ourselves", (KIDZONE-USA). In practical terms I am not suggesting a complete localization of the website in every language -- but it would be within the realm of "doable-ness" to provide a few translations -- and very easy to incorporate an online translator as I have done at Imagine Nations -- and no excuse not to provide these flags online in a way that they could be displayed, collected and even printed out as home made patches by the kids. My earlier adult project: http://www.wonder-books.com/funnypaperz/prmfe.gif MEN FROM EARTH was based on the old idea of a Round Table -- worthy men and women from all countries united in common cause. I would like to attempt to unite all children -- or at least INvite them to our playground with no other cause than themselves. Pls. see attachements 1-13 The following pages illustrate how simple it is to arrive at recognizeable flags with colors and compositions of each nation -- but substituting our "hand-print" for stars, crests, and other political symbols. As a mater of fact -- and only by accident of sketching over and over and over again today -- I am liking the idea of a custom hand-print we can trademark -- one that uses a heart-shape for the palm. More on this with later sketches... Best! Joe King "That Joe Guy" Making the world a funnier place... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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