I taught and I write, I do what I can. Whatever happens, I will know I was on the right side because I have consciously tried to act with empathy and sanity. The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. Mindfulness, courage and truth. I don't know if they'll carry the day, but I know they're the only values worth having.
Michael Fraley wrote:
ReplyDeleteI think this was one of the strongest themes of the Chris Reeve Superman movies: a truly good, decent man was like a visitor from another planet in our cynical, jaded world. You not only believed that he could fly, but that such a person could exist. His bumbling Clark Kent was a target for all of that social venom, using it as a cloak of invisibility that could be thrown off when the situation demanded it.