Rainy Day Tales Now a rainy Sunday. If you feel like reading about the arts and war try this and this. Both pieces - powerful and moving. One of the comments to the second article, I thought was excellent .... I have often heard the arts referred to as a way to "engage the culture that is, and create the world that ought to be". The idea that art can help us celebrate joyous elements in life--by giving us new ways to perceive them--and to process through the brokenness in life--by helping us see the pieces that need to be put back together again--are central to human experience. Props to The Great Dance Weblog for pointing the way.