{"id":10616,"date":"2018-05-01T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=10616"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:58:54","slug":"art-is-the-distance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=10616","title":{"rendered":"Art is the Distance…."},"content":{"rendered":"

……Time gives to suffering. I read this once, when I was reading some Albert Camus<\/a>. I struggled for years to understand it. In a vague way, I knew that poets suffered through their poems – “Do not go gentle into that good night”<\/a> – and we know these poems now as Art – “Too much of love makes a stone of the heart.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Certainly painters have captured suffering for years on their canvases. Tragic plays re-enact the agony of moments in time and music mourns these moments in minor keys.<\/p>\n

I have just seen an amazing tribute to suffering distanced by 17 years. Well, the musical debuted much earlier, but, it does take me a while to get around to “things.”<\/p>\n

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“Come From Away<\/a>” re-enacts in song and dance a combination of suffering and survival. It’s hard to imagine a musical celebrating the re-routing of 37 planes that could not land in the US immediately after the 9\/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade towers. But this work of Art did, winning many awards.<\/p>\n

I just wanted to give Newfoundland a great big hug, after the show. I tear up every time I think of the people of Gander, NL, a community of 6,000 people hosting 7,000 stranded passengers for 4 days.<\/p>\n

Long live people with big hearts and limited resources. You show us what can be done with a little, actually a lot, of kindness!!<\/p>\n

The picture? Not from the musical, but you get the idea!<\/p>\n

Have a artful day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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