Sunday, March 4, 2007

Excerpts from Essay - "We Are Still One People," with photographs.




                "We begin then, with the basic premise that the purpose of our life is to seek happiness. It is a vision of happiness as a real objective, one that we can take positive steps toward achieving…We will learn how the search for happiness offers benefits not only for the individual but for the individual's family and for society at large as well."

—His Holiness The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler. M.D.
The Art of Happiness 

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        "If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it; 
          if one part is honored, all the parts share its joy."

—Roy Richard Grinker
                                             


The disabilities of many children and adults vary quite distinctively. But society as a whole, psychologically and sociologically processes these irregularities as relatively the same and dismissively.



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 It is my belief that the environmental portrait can be revealing. Images can present and represent something from the essence of each of us, stirring up, catching, and defining a part of what it is to be human. We are each other.

                                           —Shelby Lee Adams
                                                         July 2014


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