Comments on: "American Beauty" moments http://www.chasdanner.com/2007/03/29/american-beauty-moments/ looking around quizzically since 1979 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:01:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Phil http://www.chasdanner.com/2007/03/29/american-beauty-moments/#comment-14 Phil Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:25:26 +0000 http://www.idanner.com/chasdanner/?p=77#comment-14 I love the image of a little tomato endlessly spinning at the top of an escalator! It's such a rich metaphor for our situation: organic life being continuously pushed along by technology but not actually going anywhere. And the image of cold hard metal playing with a small, soft, smooth fruit without damaging it is wonderful. It is an otherwise trivial event that radiates the beauty of life and opens our mind up to a different perspective. How inspiring! (You're right though, we should come up with something other than "an American Beauty moment" - although i know exactly what you mean. Perhaps we could just say that it is a moment of Beauty??) I love the image of a little tomato endlessly spinning at the top of an escalator! It’s such a rich metaphor for our situation: organic life being continuously pushed along by technology but not actually going anywhere. And the image of cold hard metal playing with a small, soft, smooth fruit without damaging it is wonderful. It is an otherwise trivial event that radiates the beauty of life and opens our mind up to a different perspective. How inspiring!

(You’re right though, we should come up with something other than “an American Beauty moment” - although i know exactly what you mean. Perhaps we could just say that it is a moment of Beauty??)

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