Trauma and Community

Photo: She Counseling

Certain kinds of trauma visited on peoples are so deep, so stupefyingly cruel, that—unlike money, unlike vengeance, even unlike justice, rights, or the good will of others—art alone can translate such trauma and turn sorrow into meaning, sharpening the moral imagination.

Toni Morrison, Roundtable on the Future of the Humanities in a Fragmented World

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The Poignancy of Things

Photo: Sans soleil, dir. Chris Marker

Chris Marker’s Sans soleil exemplifies the journey to wisdom, without once mentioning that concept.

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