One of my projects during this Pause has been to work on editing my correspondence over several years with Sister Wendy Beckett, the hermit, known for her commentaries on art. Today, came across a passage that helped me reflect on a problem that has troubled me in the past year.
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"Can a bad man be a good artist? Surely goodness is essential and I think it follows that it is from this goodness that the wonder of art will spring. But of course sometimes a person is a mixture of goodness and badness--, Caravaggio is the obvious example--...
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...and it’s from the goodness in them that their art comes. The art is the goodness in a way, it’s what they aspire to be."--Sr. Wendy Beckett
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Fr. M Owen Lee wrote a book on this... Richard Wagner: The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art.
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
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