From an article I’m writing on “Why Love still matters”:
Love is required to see and interpret life accurately. Love finds beauty, and the true nature of other, and calls it forth. For Love peers into the true nature of things. Love clarifies perception, allowing us to interpret things more clearly.
 The relationship between love and aesthetics hasn’t been properly named, but love is essential in seeing both art and nature well.  We see things rightly when we love them. And when we see things as they really are, we will love them.
 Hope is based on what only Love can see! We see things accurately, to the degree that we love them. In this sense Love also makes things more whole. Love heals what we see, as it heals us.
 Hope is not a denial of suffering, but it is a seeing of what is on the other side of it, as we look in Love! We are too selective with our love, maybe we are afraid of encountering other-or being transformed ourselves, by depth encounter! Love sees both. as it is, and as it will be. Love beholds things into wholeness. This is why Love still matters.
 Spiritual perception helps guide things home to themselves, and this occurs through Love. Love is our hermenuetic!
In this sense, learning to love is life’s highest art form. Love calls forth true identity. Love overcomes all forms of pornographic vision for it allows us to see other for their intrinsic value, not in terms of our own gratification. Love never fails. Love has no ending—as St Paul taught us. Love still matters!
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Raw notes from recent evacuations:
On another note, this happened this week. Got evacuated from a coffee shop which was attached to a Jewish community center. The Jewish community as a target…hum…this is getting more obvious!! Less subtle, more direct.
Twice this past week I was personally evacuated.—so here’s my vent. Sorry, but I get tired of racism. It’s ugly and has no art in it! Racism has no beauty and lacks intelligence, based in fear and interpretation based on appearance, it is also rooted in pride, and at times, as an artist i just get tired of it’s stupidity.
 Getting tired of getting evacuated! Happened again today.
  More Jewish community centers got bomb threats today in America, in this case, very close to where I was having coffee with friends. I was near two Jewish community centers visiting artist friends today when the block was cleared.
 Enough already. Let’s pray harder and be smarter. We’ve already lived through this a million times.
Praying, as always! But also frustrated.
  Bomb threats are a coward’s or teenager’s approach to conflict. Instilling fear rather than working through anger towards intimacy-like you have to do in real relationships! I’m just a counselor, and artist, a tender soul, and a fool, but I get tired of seeing this too.
  Plus, we where all evacuated in the middle of a good coffee conversation! Who knows what great art could’ve come from that conversation we were having today! Healing begins with forgiveness, even across generations–let’s at least start there!
 In counseling, we used to call this projecting and acting out, rather than “owning” and working through your own issues. These are basic human problems. I just wanted to finish my coffee with my art friends today, but this projected hatred keeps interrupting the flow of Love’s Way, and Love’e’s endless conversation. Starting to irritate me.