5)

Yet, given the circumstances, we humans are capable of anything. To be human is to be flawed, yet it is also to possess the potential to achieve staggering things - beautiful, brilliant, inspiring, wild and audacious things; things to be cherished, despite our complex and compromised natures.”

4)

perhaps the most deluded of which is the belief that we are somehow exclusively and morally superior to everyone else. Many of you might be thinking, "Well, speak for yourself! I’m not like Kanye! I could never behave like that!"

cont

3)

I think I now prefer Nick Cave’s assertion that:

“We are all broken, flawed, and suffering human beings, each a disaster in our own right, each with the capacity to cause great harm, each brimming with misguided notions . . . “

cont.

2)

. . . painful for many reasons, not the least of all because the values in the books were a large part of how they identified themselves in elementary and middle school.

My argument was that the author is dead and the work stands on its own merits.

cont . . .

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Just read Nick Cave’s newest Red Hand Files in which he writes about the impossibility of separating art from the artist.

Listening to my kids rejecting Harry Potter because of its author over the last several years has been painful for many reasons . . . cont