“the experience of hearing Judy Garland sing ‘Over the Rainbow.’ When the song and the credits end, I am left with the feeling that ought to be a paradise, and I am reminded of C.S. Lewis’s famous quote: ‘If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.’ We do not need to only participate in dark or troubling stories, but we do need to give priority to stories that haunt us, unsettle us, and expand us, whether through beauty and delight or tragedy. We also need to make time and space to interpret the stories through dialogue with others. Living in an atomistic culture, our default response to receiving a story is not to interpret it in community. We may have a personal opinion about it. We may tweet a 280 character review. We may debate parts of the story. But most of us are not inclined to take the time to slowly work through the meanings of the story and dialogue with one another. In other words, the prolonged, thoughtful, charitable dialogue about stories I’m recommending will not happen naturally. We need to intentionally pursue it.”
Alan Noble Disruptive Witness
Nice spotting Isabel
Looking forward to next week’s yellow collection
Jim R – Here’s hoping . . .
What a good eye you have for the colour and for composition in your angles! Elevates what most of us would consider two mundane objects. I really like the photo.
Judith – Many thanks. A red traffic light (that gave me time to react) deserves an assist on this photo!
Good stuff, Isabel.
Tom
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There are many yellows: banana, milky, Abazaba toffee, JAMES BROWN yellow (in your face bright), Post-it, baby. Look at car yellows — all over the place.
And have you noticed “green” lights are now turquoise?
Barbara – I had to look up Abba-Zaba toffee. That is a distinctive yellow – I’ll keep an eye open for it here. As for turquoise traffic lights, no, I hadn’t noticed, but I trust your eye over mine every day. Here’s Atlas Obscura on traffic lights in Japan.