The Evil Among Us

Pine Hill, NJ

Every once in awhile I work on one of the "bark tree abstracts", as I call them, and something scary or evil or just gruesome pops onto the screen. This is one of them and I call it "The Evil Among Us". We can be a cruel people as well as a kind and gentle people. Watch a reality show and you can see just how mean and cruel we are at times, even the show "Kid Nation". Last week there were these children being mean to one girl and in the process brought a very nice young man to tears, to the point he wanted to go home. Granted they were able to work the problem out. It reminded me of when I was in 6th grade and a group of us ostracisized another girl and one of our classmates came along and told us in no uncertain terms we were wrong to do what we were doing. I was embarrassed to be a part of the group and it has stayed with me all these years. For just a short time evil got in the way of otherwise nice children and made us cruel to someone else. Evil is among us and here is my version of evil personified.