Ask the Woolly Staff: What’s your Taj Mahal?
Guards at the Taj opens at Woolly in just a few weeks, and as we’re thinking about this magnificent play, we find ourselves meditating on the concept of beauty as it’s explored in Guards. What is beauty in the deepest, most instinctual sense of the term? In a world that has fully commodified beauty, a world in which beautiful images are always just a click away, what, if anything, can still fill us with awe and wonder?
We asked the Woolly staff to talk about their “Taj Mahal”: Places and moments that have touched their lives and made them a little more beautiful. We’ve published a few examples below. If you’re inspired, please send us yours!
Daryl Wolke, Donor Engagement Manager:
My Taj Mahal is the Pacific Ocean in the winter at sunset from a Hermosa Beach life guard chair. I love the orange, yellows and reds of a west coast sunset, combined with the stillness of the water and the light bouncing off the sand as it fades away to darkness and a blanket of stars.
Stacey Sulko, Business and Group Sales Manager:
My Taj Mahal is the Grand Canyon. I think it’s incredibly humbling to know that nature, without any help from man, created something so vast, large, and beautiful. It’s truly breathtaking and it gives you the whole “you are one small speck on the world” feeling while being complex at the same time.
Steven Dawson, Associate Director of Sales and Marketing:
My Taj Mahal is Logan’s Pass in Glacier National Park, NW Montana. When you reach the peak of the range there, you can hike for a little bit and get to a point that overlooks a massive expanse of the most beautiful land you can imagine. It at once causes you to feel both huge and minuscule in the universe.
Ouida Maedel, Grants Manager:
My Taj Mahal is Kokrobite, a small fishing village in Ghana. Kokrobite is just west of Accra — Ghana’s capital city. The people, the music, the dancing, the beach, the sun, the food, and especially the akpeteshie…it is my most favorite place on earth.
Justin McCarthy, Communications Coordinator:
My Taj Mahal is Manhattan, as viewed from the roof of a Williamsburg apartment as the sun rises on a couple of college kids who gave up a night of sleep for the chance to sit on top of a building and talk about what they hope they’re going to do and be.
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