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As I continue to recover from oral surgery, my mind goes to this image:

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Katy Horan

Katy Horan has let us know about a new music video using her drawings. Lovely to watch.

Song: Pied Piper
Musician: Yoriyos
Director: Ron Winter

To their defence.

Someone sent this quote from this article to me:

"Mr Bush says expanding public funding goes against the principles of private health care, and that subsidising it creates a disincentive for people to buy private care themselves."

And I thought of the way many political leaders in certain cultures, American being one, who try to align themselves with religion to make people feel like they can vote for some kind of God-ordained human being who will make everything right.

And this quote comes to mind when thinking of all the huffing and puffing about bringing justice to the world:

And that wasn't the end of it. There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence, were something weak and helpless. These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, "Business as usual." But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.

These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defence, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush.

Life of Pi
Yann Martel

Many thanks.

Thanks to all those kinds souls that showed up for the production and design panel at Mount Royal College this morning. And for those of you who were at Word on the Street and received a sample magazine, we hope you'll subscribe and become one of our merry band of readers.

(Watch the pocket watch. Listen to scary wobbly voice: "Subscribe. Subscribe.")

I had a little freshman flashback this morning when I went to the wrong building and then tried to tunnel my way out to get to the panel on time. But it was all okay. Everything will be okay.

Now onto pulling together the last bits of Beyond Issue 16: Small.