G. Steve Journal

Gives You Access

Actor Ethan Hawke was a recent guest on Real Time with Bill Maher and his extemporaneous reflections on art and it's impact on society ring true:

Every once in a while a writer, a really fine writer, can give voice to something that we’re all thinking about, it’s like an unanswerable question… you’re watching the world and you can’t make sense out of it, and art.. a great song, a great piece of music, a great movie, can ask the question that will vibrate within you— it doesn’t give you an answer, its just gives you access to your own voice…

 

In The Heart

One of the segments on last night's "60 Minutes" was about wildlife photographer Thomas Mangelsen.  I've never tried wildlife photography, or even had that much interest in it, but as the story made clear Mangelsen has elevated the craft to levels rarely before seen.

In one scene from the field, Manglesen and his friend, primatologist Jane Goodall, admire the migration of Sandhill Cranes -- together they are working to ensure the protection of these birds.

Goodall observes that:

One of the qualities that I love about Tom is his passion, and it's when you have that kind of passion and that kind of commitment that you're more likely to get other people involved... because we can never win an argument by appealing to people's heads it's got to be in the heart, and I use the power of storytelling and writing and Tom uses the power of images.

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