Last night, I convinced Anna to come with me to a show at SPU called "I and You" since one of my colleagues directed it and told me enough for me to know that I thought Anna and I would love it.
And, we were not disappointed. It was a profound story of hope and an ode to youth, life, love, and connection.
From a great article about the role of art in our world by Lee Camp:
"So we return to the
question with which we began—what is poetry’s role when the world is burning?
And Bob Dylan reminds us again that such a question is not a cynical one, but a
prescriptive one.
It is quite possible for our artistic endeavors to be escapist,
art that is, quoting Chris Wiman again, “not steeped in the world.” But it is also
possible—still quoting Wiman—to do “art better at theology than theology is.”
In other words: Precisely because the world is burning is there
so much art to be done, so much poetry to be written, and so many songs to
sing."
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