http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=68228 Herewith I am applauding Annie for allowing us -- and especially her contemporaries -- to see an intelligent, kind and generous beauty like herself, age gracefully right in front of our eyes, thus mirroring ourselves.
The next level for us is to turn the mirror on ourselves as filmmakers and see ourselves in the stories we're trying to tell.
"It's a mirror on ourselves from another time," an advertising executive said.
He holds up a mirror to ourselves, and each time we read him we find something new.
Any of us who experience irrational fluctuations of feeling from time to time will see a heightened mirror of ourselves in her, and we start to question what defines mental illness.
But it helped me to think more clearly about how we unconsciously use nature as a mirror of ourselves, and how suffering is so often brought about not through evil, but through carelessness and ignorance.
"It's a mirror on ourselves from another time," said John Nuzzi, senior vice president and group director for entertainment at the Los Angeles office of Initiative, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies.
You can read it as an investigation into the nature of freedom, of education, power, war, history, class, enslavement, the English landscape and the workings of the human heart… In our present age of terrible environmental destruction, it can be read most usefully as a book about humanity's lamentable inability to see nature as anything other than a mirror of ourselves".
That longing to find in another country a mirror of ourselves trumped cold analysis and led to years of denial that came to an end only when the mutilated bodies at the Baghdad morgue mounted each day: to 30, 40 and finally 75 to 100.
"It's all of it, the science, the training, the coaches, but most of all we point the mirror at ourselves and ask 'how can we get better?'".
