Grace

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

~ Marshall McLuhan

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There is beauty in lots of places in the world.  Even in things outdated or unpopular there can be tremendous beauty.  And we are so powerful that we can create grace and beauty in most of our everyday actions and interactions.  Even our inactions - even sitting alone and thinking good thoughts in your car can be beautiful.  Showing kindness is a beautiful (and sadly rare) thing.

I think that we undervalue elegance and beauty in form and movement and action and gesture.  We undervalue grace.  If we would appreciate those things more, I think we would try to be graceful in the eyes of others - lifting them up rather than pushing them down.

No one looks graceful pushing someone under a bus.