A show which starts humbly in musings of humble arts, sweeping and ironing, and ends with a transcendent vision of transcendent arts of sweeping and ironing as nothing less than Truth and Beauty, and along the way picks up four newsy companions, news we need, news we heed: stories on Virgin Galactica’s space flight sale, book now; Stephen Hawking’s search for an assistant, apply now, help him communicate his visions on secrets and mysteries of the Universe; The Cardinal as offering musings for epic longing and the role of empathy and compassion, invoking what the Center for the Greater Good at UC Berkeley is finding about happiness—it’s all about kindness, compassion, and slowing down to notice . . . .
© Barbara Mossberg 2012
