touchstone quotations: Artist Wisdom

Monday, May 31, 2010

Artist Wisdom

There is no wrong way to approach the "Vietnam Veterans Memorial" as it makes no grand statements about politics or American ideals. Its sole proposition is that the cost of war is human life.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Artist Maya Lin
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PBS

Thank you to the Sunrise Rotary in Westerville, Ohio for the 2000 American flags in the Field of Heroes and for bringing us the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Moving Wall. Never Forget.

Source: pbs.org

Joseph Campbell on Interesting Times

I have read somewhere of an old Chinese curse: "May you be born in an interesting time." This is a very interesting time. There are no models for anything that is going on. It is a period of free fall into the future, and each has to make his or her own way. The old models are not working; the new have not yet appeared. In fact, it is we who are even now shaping of the new in the shaping of our interesting lives. And, that is the whole sense (in mythological terms) of the present challenge: we are the ancestors of an age to come, the unwitting generators of its supporting myths, the mythic models that will inspire its lives.

Joseph Campbell
1904 - 1987
Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, 2013