Today is a friend's birthday, and we met yesterday and had tea and saw an art show nearby her house. She has an unerring eye for beauty, and she introduces me to to many lovely artists and things. I think we instinctively wish to soothe ourselves with such beauty when something like Tucson is in the news. We want to reassure ourselves that not all is ugly around us. Friendship is the antidote to hatred, though it is the gratitude practice that I most do when I witness hatred or it arises in me.
Today I spoke with another friend, and she described a reading she went to yesterday. Maybe many of us wanted to be with friends and and in a creative environment, rather than a destructive one. To affirm that both are a part of our lives, but we choose one over the other.
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