Homage to an old teacher

Why Interventions? Why Now?
As creatives, we feel like our art may as well shake things up, break the bleak, and wake people up a bit. By merging artful presentation with activist leanings, we're helping create a new language, new symbols, new understanding.

Another way to voice opinion in the public realm is good ol' fashioned letters to the editor. I'm reminded of this while reading recent Evergreen Trivia from olyblog.net
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The letters to the editor section of The Cooper Point Journal can tell you a lot about the College. [Evergreen State College] There are two letters from 1976 I think deserve special attention. Here's the first one, from Apr. 29:
"To the Editor:
BRRRAAAAKK BUK BUK BRRRAAAKKK!!!!!
Thank you,
Friends of the Coop."

The second letter was by faculty member Craig Carlson, Oct. 7. Why he wrote it isn't really important, since I think it can stand by itself without any explanation:

"To the Editor:
I never said 'Everything is everything.' What I said was, 'The only reality is the transition of one's ideas into rhythm and beautiful movements.'
Craig Carlson."
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Though he's unfortunately no longer with us, Craig Carlson was a teacher of mine at Evergreen. And he still is. The reality he speaks of so hilariously and eloquently resonates with the work of PSA today, as we transition from our ideas into a beautiful movement. Craig taught writing and poetry, and opened his class asking us all to question "Why Rumi? Why now?"