
If this is still a little abstract, let’s make it more concrete: Life is ultimately a single-player game, but the only thing that truly makes it worth living has something to do with our relationships to other people, and this paradox sits at the core what it means to be a human being.
“Many of us feel like we’re barely keeping it together,” says Candy Chang, the artist who created “A Monument for the Anxious and Hopeful” with her partner James A. Reeves. “But seeing some private corner of your psyche reflected in somebody else’s handwriting on a wall can be incredibly reassuring. It’s a reminder of the humanity in the faces around us.”
…igh the dynamic of Leah and Rachel, when their beloved worked 7 more years for the prettier sister? What words can we use to explain to our children that yes, everyone is beautiful, but yes, looks do matter, and sorry kid, you’re your father’s spitting image and that’s just how the cookie crumbled?