paul veraguth
the point
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This was taken February 25th, 2007.
The point? It's to bring you in and surround you for a moment in simple grace and beauty. I've no doubt that, in and of itself, this may in fact seem pointless to you. It doesn't change the world outside. Wars continue, capitalism and politics still deal in false hopes and real tragedies. There are still a billion ways to suffer and more than a billion people who are intimately familiar with too many of them on a daily basis ...
That's all very true, but here is something else that is also very true: a group of young girls with dreams of being ballerinas dancing on a Sunday afternoon. And it's there, if you want to look for it: the gracefulness and beauty and power of human expression. It is in these, gifts that art is always willing to give us, that I find the point of it all.
the point
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Please consider adding your photos to The Common Threads Project.
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This was taken February 25th, 2007.
The point? It's to bring you in and surround you for a moment in simple grace and beauty. I've no doubt that, in and of itself, this may in fact seem pointless to you. It doesn't change the world outside. Wars continue, capitalism and politics still deal in false hopes and real tragedies. There are still a billion ways to suffer and more than a billion people who are intimately familiar with too many of them on a daily basis ...
That's all very true, but here is something else that is also very true: a group of young girls with dreams of being ballerinas dancing on a Sunday afternoon. And it's there, if you want to look for it: the gracefulness and beauty and power of human expression. It is in these, gifts that art is always willing to give us, that I find the point of it all.