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Love your posts. I saw the Van Gogh here in Raleigh a couple of months ago. It was so highly touted I have to admit I was a trifle disappointed, but it was pretty amazing. When I lived in Paris, the Son et Lumieres was just getting started (late 70's). I was with a sort of competitor, a fireworks company. It was quite different, though, from what it is now. Quite a success story!!

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I love your statement: but if I were forced to choose. . .and it made me so glad that I am not forced to choose. The natural world has it's amazing power of healing, and luminosity that (in my opinion) no digital creation can match. But the creations of humans are awe-inspiring. I just watched a video on Tony Cragg, sculptor from England, now a resident of Berlin, talking about his show on right now in Vienna. I listened to him speak about his work, and still could not grasp the intelligence and knowledge of materials he brings to the sculptural space, as his world of experience is so far beyond my own in his arena. Thanks to the digital accomplishments of humans, I can sit in Pennsylvania on my computer, read your post, watch Tony Cragg standing among his creations and learn from both of you the joy of living and creating. Then I can get up and go outside to my Pennsylvania farmstead and see the incredible autumn beauty we are experiencing this fall (after a summer of drought), as well as go walking in the woods behind my house where there are no other houses, roads, or people within my sight and be gloriously alone among the tall trees with their falling leaves. What a world, what a life.

thanks, again, Sara--always look forward to your beautiful writing.

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