“…To say that confidence comes from an inner desire to succeed, to overcome obstacles, doesn’t work for me. I gained confidence from the support of my peers… You can try to rely on what you have inside, but true confidence comes from the people who will catch you when you fall.”
-Rob Woodhouse
(age 19 – in Milton Magazine)
“Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing and hearing the significant things, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
Aldous Huxley, from Texts and Pretexts, Introduction (1932)
Over the last few days I watched the movie Herb and Dorothy on Netflix. The movie, by Megumi Sasaki, is an uncomplicated sharing of an extraordinary true story-line: a library worker and a postal worker who over 40 years amassed one the of the most important collections of modern, abstract, and minimalist art in the United States. (Much of the Vogel collection is now with the National Gallery of Art.)
You wouldn’t exactly call the movie ‘illuminating’, but it is charming (and astounding), especially if you’re an art-lover. Here is the trailer:
HERB & DOROTHY Trailer from Herb & Dorothy on Vimeo.