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Creation is Celebration

You made me beautiful, she answered, after seeing the photos. In my world, there could be nothing more fulfilling than hearing those words. To find beauty – even better, to help someone see their own beauty – is the highest act, the greatest good. For me, creation is celebration. I celebrate this world as it…

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  1. Megan Pingree Avatar
    Megan Pingree

    Kevin, beautiful man.
    I love what you write here. And I have to question your assertion that you are not an activist. Maybe you “do not SEEK to change the world.” But your expressions of “spiritual rebellion against the void” DO change the world. Both by your physically traveling the earth and by your allowing earthlings to travel virtually to you, your nuggets and flashes of joyful creation do make a difference. They inspire gratitude. They keep hope afloat. They coax empathy and compassion from ember into flame. They nudge resentments along a path towards forgiveness. You and Maria are healers. That, it seems to me, is activism of the highest dimension.