GOOGLE helps us sort the Internet by providing a sense of hierarchy to INFORMATION. Facebook uses its algorithms and its intricate UNDERSTANDING of our SOCIAL circles to FILTER the news we encounter. Amazon bestrides book publishing with its overwhelming hold on that market.
I FEEL that the Christian EXPERIENCE and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open SOCIETY continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, DEEPER than any THEOLOGY, may happen.
Every day you run into ARTISTS on the streets in SoHo or other creative PEOPLE you want to do something with. There's NOTHING to match that chance ENCOUNTER.
My mom had an ENCOUNTER with the KKK when she was, I think, 7 YEARS old in NORTH Carolina. She snuck into a cross burning. I'm so lucky she didn't get caught, because I wouldn't be here.
When I'm about READY to press the cable release on the VIEWCAMERA, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to ENCOUNTER in the darkroom.
KIDS need to encounter kids like themselves - kids who can sometimes be crabby and fresh and REBELLIOUS, kids who talk back and disobey, TELL fibs and get into TROUBLE, and are nonetheless still likable and redeemable.
The BJP, undoubtedly, is a party with a mission. Spreading hatred and RELIGIOUS discord, indulging in state-sponsored violence and FAKEENCOUNTER killings, and resorting to divisive POLITICS have been INTEGRAL to this mission.
WHENEVER I felt happy about having discovered SOMETHING, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other MUSICIANS, with specialists, etc, was that they REJECTED it.
Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was struck by what I had forgotten of the book: in a manner of pages, we encounter shame, HISTORY, RUIN, conflicting stories, and WOUNDS badly healed; in short, the South.