{"id":9496,"date":"2024-05-31T16:04:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T16:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/?p=9496"},"modified":"2024-10-08T15:53:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T15:53:54","slug":"join-the-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/join-the-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9496\" class=\"elementor elementor-9496\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4545da12 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4545da12\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4baf4a34\" data-id=\"4baf4a34\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-5fe34e09 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5fe34e09\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-656e62a8\" data-id=\"656e62a8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2004f961 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"2004f961\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_337244378-Converted.jpg?fit=768%2C538&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-9578\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_337244378-Converted.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_337244378-Converted.jpg?resize=300%2C210&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_337244378-Converted.jpg?resize=1024%2C717&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_337244378-Converted.jpg?resize=768%2C538&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_337244378-Converted.jpg?resize=1536%2C1075&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_337244378-Converted.jpg?resize=2048%2C1434&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c742aa7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7c742aa7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Join the Revolution<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4ce00c7f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4ce00c7f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2397e40f\" data-id=\"2397e40f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-2485f2bc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2485f2bc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-61499033\" data-id=\"61499033\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2679ca5a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2679ca5a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>When we call beauty unnecessary or self-indulgent, we\u2019re limiting the scope of love.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-799f82c7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"799f82c7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>By Katy Carl<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68e3726 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"68e3726\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Photo-by-Vitalii-Khodzinskyi-on-Unsplash-.jpg?fit=864%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-9587\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Photo-by-Vitalii-Khodzinskyi-on-Unsplash-.jpg?w=864&amp;ssl=1 864w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Photo-by-Vitalii-Khodzinskyi-on-Unsplash-.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Photo-by-Vitalii-Khodzinskyi-on-Unsplash-.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Photo by Vitalii Khodzinskyi on Unsplash<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-4d01c904\" data-id=\"4d01c904\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-62cc2275 elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"62cc2275\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"output\" class=\"page-generator__output js-generator-output\"><p>Attention is love\u2014this much we must know. If we haven\u2019t been convinced of it by the witness of writers like Simone Weil and David Foster Wallace, or by influences stretching all the way back to St. Anthony of the Desert and his ascetic school, our own experience will have to do. We know that what we care about rivets us in a way nothing else can. I would go further: In order to attend to anything at all, we need to have learned to care about it, in some way, even if all we really care about is avoiding a negative consequence associated with ignoring it.<\/p><p>But what kind of love, which is to say what kind of attention, do we bring to our encounters with art? How might an essentially intellectual and aesthetic focus be compatible with, or even a precondition of, a more caritative and practical love? Could art, at times, even constitute a form of love for others?\u00a0<\/p><p>Art absorbs and transforms, elevates and changes our capacity for attention. Yet for this very reason art and artists can garner a bad reputation for self-focus, self-indulgence. Like any creative person, like any person who values the work of the creative, I have had this kind of accusation laid at my door: How dare I focus on beauty when so much in the world is wrong? How dare I claim it helps me choose better, do better, when I do no more than most and less than many to support the poorest of the poor? In short, what good is any worldly beauty if it does not feed the hungry but only serves to flatter and soothe those who already have more than enough?\u00a0<\/p><p>Let\u2019s leave aside, for now, the way such questions might at times reflect the kind of rhetorical \u201cgotcha\u201d games driven by <em>ressentiment<\/em> and played by armchair organizers with no intention of performing the costly <em>kenosis<\/em> they so forcefully recommend to others. Let\u2019s leave aside, too, the wastefulness of protests against beauty that destroy beauty without creating any corresponding value or benefit (soup flung on paintings; wrists chained to gallery barricades). Here I am just addressing the scrupulous skittishness that arose in me, a person who in theory advocates for supporting the arts, at the thought of actually doing so in practice. That impulse is worth taking seriously, if only because it calls attention to something that might be seriously missing from a contemporary sense of who and what the human person is.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-98222e2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"98222e2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_746806053-Converted-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C292&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-9586\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_746806053-Converted-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_746806053-Converted-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C86&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_746806053-Converted-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C292&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_746806053-Converted-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C219&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_746806053-Converted-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C438&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_746806053-Converted-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C584&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_746806053-Converted-scaled.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4bf08d36 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4bf08d36\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6c13ba8\" data-id=\"6c13ba8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-315cba2c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"315cba2c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-621b895\" data-id=\"621b895\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-790ce4ca elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"790ce4ca\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?fit=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-520\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?w=309&amp;ssl=1 309w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34069bc9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"34069bc9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Where most audience members probably heard it as strictly futuristic and astronomical, my mind went back in time to think of what the ancients believed about the \u201cmusic of the spheres.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-af1098a elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"af1098a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"864\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Photo-by-Klaudia-Piaskowska-on-Unsplash-1.jpg?fit=864%2C864&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-9580\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Photo-by-Klaudia-Piaskowska-on-Unsplash-1.jpg?w=864&amp;ssl=1 864w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Photo-by-Klaudia-Piaskowska-on-Unsplash-1.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Photo-by-Klaudia-Piaskowska-on-Unsplash-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Photo-by-Klaudia-Piaskowska-on-Unsplash-1.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Photo-by-Klaudia-Piaskowska-on-Unsplash-1.jpg?resize=600%2C600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Photo by Klaudia Piaskowska on Unsplash<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-42ab0ae5\" data-id=\"42ab0ae5\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-43a9c799 elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"43a9c799\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"output\" class=\"page-generator__output js-generator-output\"><p>When we first got together, my husband and I had agreed not to purchase each other gifts for special occasions. I still think this is not a bad suggestion for newlyweds to consider. The life we were building together, we both understood, was itself the gift. Material things were a necessary but not sufficient condition for building that life.\u00a0<\/p><p>As a relationship matures, though, the nature of the substance which you need to build a life together can change. Time together, paying shared attention, can\u2019t be traded for any other good. That\u2019s the very fabric of friendship. One way we used to secure this for ourselves was by walking to the symphony, where we could easily access free concerts. But after a recent move, we were no longer living in a city where this was possible.\u00a0<\/p><p>By my own lights, then, I shouldn\u2019t have felt the need to defend it, but all the same I did. We found room in the budget for concert tickets to hear Vikingur Olafsson, a world-renowned pianist, play Bach\u2019s Goldberg Variations.\u00a0<\/p><p>For anyone who might not be familiar, the Variations are a series of thirty versions of a single aria, or short song. Not being, myself, a trained musician, I won\u2019t attempt to describe the whole piece\u2019s dizzying technical complications or give you the details of each distinct version. I will just tell you that each of the thirty Variations has its own character which, at the same time, relates back directly to its origin. The originating aria is repeated twice, at the beginning and end of the series, for a total of thirty-two musical flights.\u00a0<\/p><p>Here I use the word <em>flights<\/em> purposely, both for its sense of lift and for its connotation of climb, of effort. Picture the Variations as a sort of spiral staircase, where at each point of return to origin, a new level begins. The melody turns inside out, upside down, and yet all these changes cannot make it other than the same. Or picture the movements of objects orbiting around their star: each with its own spin, but all interrelated to each other and to the same central gravitational pull. Each obeys the same rule, but each also makes its own unrepeatable contribution to a resounding fullness.<\/p><p>This last metaphor is the one the performer himself used. As he played the slower movements, Olafsson swayed like the arm of a metronome set loose from its arc and sent into circles. Then, at the end of the concert, after being called back for three bows to endure yet a fourth standing ovation, he hurried out and waved his hands in the common conductor\u2019s signal for the end of a musical measure. We all laughed. He said then that if the Variations are a solar system, each individual variation is a planet, and to add to or subtract from the system would detract from the wholeness of it.\u00a0<\/p><p>This being Houston, the space-travel metaphor worked on more than one level, but where most audience members probably heard it as strictly futuristic and astronomical, my mind went back in time to think of what the ancients believed about the \u201cmusic of the spheres.\u201d Long before revolution meant upheaval, it meant rotation. The repeated and the renewed were not contraries but corollaries. That swaying had worked as more than a mark of cadence: it had brought things full circle.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c28ac1f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c28ac1f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"643\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_596853379-Converted-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C643&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-9585\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_596853379-Converted-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_596853379-Converted-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_596853379-Converted-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C643&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_596853379-Converted-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C482&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_596853379-Converted-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C964&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_596853379-Converted-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1286&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_596853379-Converted-scaled.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4044dd35 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4044dd35\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4aaee632\" data-id=\"4aaee632\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-613b54af elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"613b54af\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-12037c21\" data-id=\"12037c21\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-52202e34 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"52202e34\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?fit=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-520\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?w=309&amp;ssl=1 309w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5351879e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5351879e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>If a society is willing to starve people of what their souls need, it may soon have fewer qualms about depriving them of what their bodies need, too.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-17823dc elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"17823dc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Photo-by-Ben-White-on-Unsplash.jpg?fit=864%2C577&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-9581\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Photo-by-Ben-White-on-Unsplash.jpg?w=864&amp;ssl=1 864w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Photo-by-Ben-White-on-Unsplash.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Photo-by-Ben-White-on-Unsplash.jpg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Photo by Ben White on Unsplash<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-23ca845b\" data-id=\"23ca845b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5824bebe elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5824bebe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"output\" class=\"page-generator__output js-generator-output\"><p>There\u2019s a scene in Francois Mauriac\u2019s novel <em>The Woman of the Pharisees<\/em> where the title character\u2014Brigitte Pian\u2014has been financially supporting a young Catholic couple who are living in poverty and of whom she essentially disapproves. Because the husband had at first been interested in a vocation to the priesthood, but changed his mind upon falling in love, the Jansenist-minded Brigitte believes the couple to be in spiritual danger. She implicitly hopes that her material support will tie invisible strings of obligation to the couple, bringing them under her influence and causing them to feel guilt about their joy\u2014a guilt she believes will be medicinal.\u00a0<\/p><p>While the wife is pregnant and in ill health, on bed rest with their first baby, the couple uses some of the money Brigitte has given them to rent a piano. Neither of them can play it, but it gives them a sense of comfort and leisure\u2014a small taste of interior freedom\u2014while the husband works long hours and the wife\u2019s movements are severely restricted. Upon learning that it is <em>her<\/em> money they have spent on the piano, though, Brigitte becomes indignant and withdraws her financial support altogether. Because of this, the couple suffers terribly, not only in emotional terms but in the cruelest and most physical deprivations and losses.\u00a0<\/p><p>I sometimes wonder if resistance to spending resources on beauty, like the resistance I at first felt about these concert tickets, doesn\u2019t have something in common with Brigitte\u2019s attitude. Mauriac has picked up here on something real: If a society is willing to starve people of what their souls need, it may soon have fewer qualms about depriving them of what their bodies need, too.\u00a0<\/p><p>As humans, we have a need for the unnecessary. I believe that as soon as our circumstances allow it, we should attend to this need, in ourselves and in others. We should do so not just because we want to avoid the negative consequences of ignoring it\u2014a kind of pinched calculation, a miserliness of spirit\u2014but because we want to seek the kinds of shared and unifying goods that generosity alone can secure.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8fed09f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8fed09f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"171\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_442565943-Converted-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C171&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-9584\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_442565943-Converted-scaled.jpg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_442565943-Converted-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C50&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_442565943-Converted-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C171&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_442565943-Converted-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C128&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_442565943-Converted-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C256&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_442565943-Converted-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C341&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_442565943-Converted-scaled.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-71b2fff5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"71b2fff5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-55b30640\" data-id=\"55b30640\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-28770d07 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"28770d07\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-2d5173c\" data-id=\"2d5173c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8214bb elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8214bb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?fit=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-520\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?w=309&amp;ssl=1 309w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FF-Quotation-1.png?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-78d2f77c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"78d2f77c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Each morning, each repeated hour, we face this choice: thriftily to spare our effort, or lovingly to spend it.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0551a70 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"0551a70\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_706040464-scaled.jpeg?fit=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-9582\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_706040464-scaled.jpeg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_706040464-scaled.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_706040464-scaled.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_706040464-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_706040464-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_706040464-scaled.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_706040464-scaled.jpeg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-70d72856\" data-id=\"70d72856\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-783b2faf elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"783b2faf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"output\" class=\"page-generator__output js-generator-output\"><p>For days after the Olafsson concert, I walked around in a sort of delicious agony of reverence. I wish I could say that this sweet pain, pushed to birth by what I had heard, made me choose to upturn my life entirely and commit it to some new and radical good. It did not. What it did do was to give an extra quarter turn to the good actions I had already chosen.\u00a0<\/p><p>I also think it gave me strength to accept a few small and specific sacrifices, though because we are meant to do these things in secret for the Father who sees in secret I will not tell you what they were. You might find them silly anyway. Very possibly they were silly. Still they were necessary things I had been resisting doing for a long time. That I succeeded in doing them now where I had failed before does not seem to me coincidental.<\/p><p>There were other effects. As a person who had heard these glorious sounds, who wanted to make space for them and for what they meant, I had to speak a little more softly in the morning when the children were fractious on the way to school. Had to turn off the constant intracranial drip of digital noise. Had to stop complaining about the consistent, repetitive hassles of every day as if these were mere obstacles rather than, in their way, reassurances of safety. Had to try to love my life, even in stasis, with the same intensity and regularity a concert pianist must bring to the stage city after city, week after week.<\/p><p>For if in music the same constraining consistencies could give rise to so many and such wild fluctuations and flourishes, how, in life, could I continue to feel that constraint was only limiting rather than being, also, generative: a kind of scaffold across the fa\u00e7ade of joy under construction?<\/p><p>Here is where the aesthetic and the quotidian meet. Each morning, each repeated hour, we face this choice: thriftily to spare our effort, or lovingly to spend it. So often, we are tempted not to give what we have, but to save it for later. But what is \u201clater\u201d? When is it? Do we have any guarantee that this imagined future, this supposed \u201clater,\u201d is ever coming? Are we promised tomorrow? Yet without love, we can give all of our substance and still have it mean nothing.<\/p><p>Art meets love when it shares the logic of the woman who broke the alabaster jar of ointment over the feet of Christ before He suffered. Art goes beyond the necessary. It overflows. It lavishes resources on the sheer affirmation of the goodness of being\u2014and thereby reminds us that such goodness may also find a home in us.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-50c2e0ab elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"50c2e0ab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_431432204.jpeg?fit=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-9583\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_431432204.jpeg?w=864&amp;ssl=1 864w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_431432204.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farefwd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AdobeStock_431432204.jpeg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-56300b8e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"56300b8e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-2a8aa6c7\" data-id=\"2a8aa6c7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-6921c3ab\" data-id=\"6921c3ab\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-69543b38 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"69543b38\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Katy Carl<\/strong> is editor in chief of\u00a0<em>Dappled Things\u00a0<\/em>magazine and author of two books from Wiseblood Books,\u00a0<em>As Earth Without Water<\/em>, a novel (2021), and <em>Fragile Objects <\/em>(2023). 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