"Something magical happens when people break bread together and there's this shared experience of, you may completely disagree with the person sitting next to you, but then you're still going to humbly ask them to pass the butter, you know ?"
Jason Atkinson, Film Maker and Writer
The Epoch Times, December 2, 2020
“When things are chaotic to the extreme, order must be restored.”
The Virtue of the Brush in a Time of Chaos
(Needs to be scrolled down)
“Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Only through the influence of art the peaceful cooperation of man will come about, and all violence will be set aside.”
An interesting biographical snippet:
It may surprise some readers to learn that of all art forms, the great Leo Tolstoy, the great man of letters, was most moved by music. His son, Serge, a composer, said that no man he had ever known was so deeply affected by music as his father. Notable people witnessed his reaction to music as well. The great Russian basso Feodor Chaliapin recalled that when he came to sing for Tolstoy, Sofia Tolstoya drew him aside saying: “It might be that when you sing, my husband will shed tears. Please try not to notice, as he would feel terribly ashamed.” Tchaikovsky also noted in his diary: “Perhaps I have never in my life been so gratified and my creative ambition so touched as when L.N. Tolstoy, sitting beside me and listening to the andante of my First String Quartet, burst into tears.”
Raymond Beegle
Complete Article:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/truth-tellers-leo-tolstoy-in-love-with-truth_3533979.html
When there appears more than one interesting item each day it seemed that this format is suitable -- I hope that you agree.
(a) Puppies -- Sick dogs trigger questions about imported pets, respected purebred Puppy List. As Canada faces a surge of thousands of puppies imported from eastern Europe, where puppy mills are rampant, the very organization Canadians might expect to be cracking down appears to be lending legitimacy to questionable sellers.
(b) Immigrants -- Today marks a day of both hope and anxiety for immigrants desperate to bring their parents or grandparents to live permanently in Canada, as a controversial lottery process for family reunification opens.
I am very grateful to John for bringing this very important video to our attention.
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Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. Push sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, increasingly unliveable cities, and an escalating housing crisis. The film follows Leilani Farha, the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, as she's travelling the globe, trying to understand who's being pushed out of the city and why.
https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/push-feature-version
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