Something Beautiful

Robert Shetterly & "Americans Who Tell the Truth"

Again and again I'm drawn to the idea of the Americans Who Tell the Truth project.   I'm not crazy about the artist's style but something deep within me responds to the basic idea of offering visual and narrative portraits of admirable Americans.   Artist Robert Shetterly began this project after 9/11, in response to all the lies that were being told to the American people at that time.   May we someday be worthy of greatness again. 

A diet for a kinder, more beautiful planet

I wish everyone in the world would listen to President Bill Clinton on this short video clip, and do exactly as he has done. What a beautiful world we would have when animals were no longer abused as they are now.

Our new president

I'm not going to celebrate today with a clip or a quote from the inauguration (although I'll probably put Reverend Lowery's prayer up one of these days.)

Instead, here's a beautiful man who moves with grace and elegance, and I love to think of him like this -- Barack on the Ellen Show, when he was still a mere Senator.

Tall thin black dude + neat lesbian white lady = magic in America.

The sting of poverty

This is the kind of intellectual work that I think deserves the adjective "beautiful" -- The sting of poverty, at the Boston Globe.