THE SPECIAL MODEL Photographer: Max Abadian Model: Coco Rocha
"Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself -- be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself -- by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love -- the more human he is."
Krysta Dziak stars as Aldonza in, Man of La Mancha, Vermillion, South Dakota, 2009 by Gemma Givens
Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics.
I LOVE YOU ELIF SHAFAK! <---favorite author!
http://embed.ted.com/talks/elif_shafak_the_politics_of_fiction.html