Thank You, Artists...

I spend many of my days trying to find new ways to get college freshman and sophomores to see that artists give us little moments of order and sanity in this random and chaotic world. That moment of order and sanity may be in the form of a poem, or painting, or dance, or photograph, or piece of music.

That moment may be one sentence of clarity in which the words seem to cooperate and do our bidding.

Thank you to all the artists out there. Thank you to the ones who give us reasons to see, reasons to try to understand—ways to see and ways to understand. When we lose one of you, we are reminded that chaos always wins, but art has the last and most enduring word/image/gesture/song.

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crossing out
the word 'loss'
a light rises

crossing out
the word 'loss'
writing it neatly