Sadness and Beauty
About the horror and joy of what we can't control
“Winter” Oil on linen 10”x10” 2009 Aviva Rahmani
Winter is coming. It won’t be here until December 21. Mythologically, winter is about death and loss. Many of us feel a deathly iciness in what has already descended on the world. What feels so cold is a trend towards measuring all value against a spreadsheet of dollars and cents, skewed towards the benefit of a privileged group of just a few people. What dies in the spreadsheet is beauty, kindness and joy. That is a cruel world that is built on cruelty. It is a very very sad place to live.