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Day: February 20, 2014

Kindness can be brutal

Posted on February 20, 2014October 13, 2019 by Dionne Lew

When you’re on the receiving end of kindness — it’s milk — a honeyed sap with associations of mothering & the cosseted dark womb. But being kind is an altogether different experience. It’s rising in the dark to run despite rain & icy winds while the world is sleeping. Being kind can mean: Suppressing the urge to lash out because you[…]

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Art, creative judgement & shared human drives

Posted on February 20, 2014October 13, 2019 by Dionne Lew

Elitists put up barriers to entry to art.  They use alienating jargon to send outsiders a message that they’re not clever or worthy enough to get it. “Get it?” But there are those who diminish art and people who love it because they don’t get it. They crumple it underfoot. Or say that it is purely subjective. “I[…]

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