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To the editor:
Our family has spent many enjoyable summers in Sullivan County. We are writing as mother and daughter who live in New York City. I, Amy Lief Lustig, live in Belle Harbor where a plane recently crashed into our neighborhood. And I, Eve Lustig, for the past few years have lived less than a mile from what was once the World Trade Center site. We are tremendously affected by what has happened to our city, our communities and the lives of so many people we know and don’t know in these recent months. Like so many others, we have gone from feeling stunned and worrying about the future, to being pleased by a beautiful, sunny day, to thinking about our neighbors. There can be many feelings that don’t seem to go together. We are so grateful, especially at this time, to know Aesthetic
Realism, the great, kind education founded by the American historian
and critic Eli Siegel, and taught in New York. We are learning how to meet
what is occurring and to see it in the best way we can. In an issue of
the international journal, The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known,
#1493 titled “Terror and Liking the World,” Class Chairman of Aesthetic
Realism Ellen Reiss tells of the scientific and kind basis for how to see
the world we are in, now and at any time. She writes:
Aesthetic Realism states that the world can be known more truly, liked more honestly by seeing it has an aesthetic structure—that it is a rich relation of opposites, such as dark and light, high and low, the ordinary and the surprising. Ms. Reiss continues:
We are so glad to be learning there is an organizing and hopeful way to think about ourselves, our neighbors, what is occurring in the world. It is making us stronger, clearer, more energetic and useful. Amy Lief Lustig
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