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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

 

WAITING FOR A NEW VOICE

I usually love New Year celebrations. I look forward to stepping through the door of a new year, clearing the old, and bringing in the fresh and vital. I am usually happy and excited about the possibilities the new cycle will bring. After sleeping in on the first day of the year, I open a new journal and set my personal and professional goals. Then I usually attend my friend’s White Party in her beautiful home in Venice. To symbolize the unblemished canvas of the New Year, all the guests wear white, the food is white (think cauliflower, potatoes, endives, macaroni & cheese), and of course we sip champagne while toasting to our success and happiness.

But this year, on the eve of 2009, I am in no mood for celebration because I am devastated, sad, and angry. The brutal military assault on a starving population held in captivity in Gaza has shaken me to my core. I have chosen to work towards a better world and I am willing to make many sacrifices necessary to achieve even a fraction of good. But I would be dishonest if I said that I didn’t expect to yield a promising return. To witness such inhumanity, such arrogance, such a brutal abuse of power, in an already fragile and violent world has discouraged and depressed me.

Being angry and sad does not suit me, or anyone for that matter, so I must commit myself to shed such gloomy feelings. It might take some time, but I know that we can’t have light without accepting the dark.

For you my dear readers, I wish much peace, happiness, and success. May 2009 be a year of breakthroughs and fresh starts.


Cosmopolite \koz-MOP-uh-lyt\, noun:
1. One who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world; a cosmopolitan person.

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Ms. Cosmopolite is a blog offering a feminine perspective on art, culture, politics, and life behind the scenes of a museum. Created by the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, the blog is primarily written by its current Executive Director, Maryna Hrushetska (a blonde who vaguely resembles the blog's representative illustration). Written with a blend of whimsy and substance, Ms. Cosmopolite reinforces the museum’s worldview of building common ground through the universal lens of art. Discussion topics range from exhibition themes, social and political commentary, and all things Venusian.

The Ms. in the blog name is homage to both the group of women that founded the establishment in 1965 and the current all female full-time staff. Additionally, a cosmopolite is defined as someone who is at home in every culture; a citizen of the world; a cosmopolitan person; and magnificently embodies the museum’s current mission.


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