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Human Beauty
Humanity has been spiraling upwards for millennia — from warlords’ brute force to divine-right of kings supported by a corrupt Catholic Church putting the Bible in Latin to hide the truth to the U.S faux-democracy of slave-owning landowner to the end of physical slavery even as other forms of economic and political slavery remained to voting rights for women and blacks to end of Jim Crow laws during the Civil Rights Era to the challenging (unsuccessfully) of America’s many recent immoral wars during and after Vietnam to gay rights to the MeToo movement to Black Lives Matter. It has been a long, slow, painful upward spiral as the ruling class — both hidden and known — begrudgingly gave up their misbegotten gains.
As a one-room schoolhouse where evolving souls come to remember love through as many lifetimes as they chose, it is inevitable that all will eventually awaken given two elements encoded into our DNA: pain and intelligence. — Robert Roskind
I like to imagine I’m living in a time of transformation. I like to think the eye of the human heart is going to open in my lifetime, but it better hurry because I’m not getting any younger.
Can you look at the image I posted without feeling awe for the beauty of the image the artist created as well as for the subject of the painting? This is powerful beauty created by many forces, from the artist who conceived and painted…
