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Like
millions of people all over the nation, I have been heartbroken to hear
and read about the shootings that have taken place in schools throughout
our country, including in Springfield. I agree very much with U.S. Sen.
Carol Moseley-Braun and the bill she is co-sponsoring, the Child Firearm
Access Prevention Act, a bill that would make it illegal for any person
to provide a child with uncontrolled access to a firearm. But this is not
the complete answer. We have to educate ourselves and the children as to
the cause of these horrible events. ...more
Aesthetic
Realism Seminars
"If
that computer goes down again, I'll scream!" "I never seem to meet
the right person for me." I am tremendously grateful to speak tonight about
"Women's Dissatisfaction--Can It Be Beautiful?" because I have learned
that how we are dissatisfied has centrally to do with whether we
like ourselves or not. What is the  basis
for our dissatisfaction?
And read about the ceramist Beatrice Wood, and how her work showed a beautiful
dissatisfaction! ...more...
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 How
Can a Man Be Proud of the Way He Worries? by Jeffrey Carduner
Jeffrey
Carduner speaks about the important matter of worry, and the great question
Aesthetic Realism asks, "Does the way I worry make me kinder?" Read
about how Aesthetic
Realism consultations encourage a man to understand his worries and
how he uses them. And read about how the photographer Lewis Hine
used worry in America to see fairly and beautifully.
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Throughout
America there are accidents and tragedies occurring because young people
are bored and looking for excitement. There are injuries of young men on
skate boards who get a dangerous thrill hanging on to buses; young men
dare each other to ride on the tops of elevators; to take drugs. As a young
man, I did hurtful and even dangerous things, because I was bored. The
thing I learned through my study of Aesthetic
Realism is that I had a desire, a hope to be bored,
to see reality, as Mr. Siegel once
so accurately described in me: "as a sucked orange." ...more
Part
1: Aesthetic Realism Asks: Why Are Young Men Bored?
Part
2: What a Young Man Is Learning about Boredom
Part
3: Boredom and Gambling; He's Learning to Like the World Honestly!
I
love Aesthetic Realism with all my heart for teaching me, Yes, a woman
can respect herself in love and sex--when we use love and sex as they were
meant to be, to know and like the world. "The purpose of love," Eli
Siegel writes in Self
and World, "is to feel closely one with things as a whole." Every
woman--at a health club, a restaurant, or a bar--meeting men, hoping for
love--should be able to know this, and what interferes! ...more
Is
a Woman’s Deepest Purpose to Like the World? by
Devorah Tarrow
Aesthetic
Realism taught me that the deepest thing in a woman or man is to know the
world and to have as much feeling about it as possible. If we curtail
this desire, try to feel less by having contempt, making ourselves superior
to people, we hurt our minds and we cannot like ourselves.  Tonight,
I’m going to talk about what I learned, what a woman is learning today
in Aesthetic Realism consultations, and about a woman whose great art and
the incidents of her life show the debate in all of us between feeling
more and feeling less--Greta Garbo. In a talk of 1975, Eli Siegel said
of her:
"When
the most esteemed actress of the cinema turned her face at a certain angle,
it would make for deep emotion. She was very strong. People
felt she could handle any emotion coming her way, and then she could be
as much affected as anyone has ever been." ...more
Aesthetic
Realism Outreach
Presentations
for Senior Women & Men by Anne Fielding & Jeffrey Carduner
Anne Fielding and Jeffrey
Carduner give talks at senior centers throughout the NYC metropolitan area,
and in Florida! See http://www.annefielding.net/Senior-Talks.html
Also see the Speakers
section at for speakers on education, young people, music, art,
anti-prejudice, and more!
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