When everything gets overwhelming, I make a point to seek out the natural world. The trees and mountains stand witness to the fact that every despot and petty tyrant is nothing to the grandness of it all. It truly is healing to me. Blue Mountain - Missoula, Montana

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Chaplin going hard in THE IMMIGRANT (1917), cutting from a shot of the Statue of Liberty to the dehumanizing treatment of the immigrants aboard a ship (with a tiny dallop of slapstick thrown in).

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reading Gay Berlin and tearing up at the story of Karl Ulrichs, the first person to express in public a modern understanding of homosexuality and also simultaneously the first gay man to come out openly under his own name. talk about standing on the edge of the world.

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