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Everyone's a Critic- Or an Editor
For the longest time, a large piece of graffiti (created by the "Warren Street Vandalism Literacy Project") remained pristine. All across a construction site that is protected by white pieces of painted plywood, some industrious folks had created a little alphabet lesson. (O is for Ontology, P is for pencil, Q is for quark... you get the picture.)
And then autumn arrived, and with it the know-it-alls I love so dearly. As you can see, they felt obliged to correct the entry for the letter "U," but, and I mean this sincerely, something really wonderful happened. When they discovered they were in error, they apologized and stood corrected.
Imagine a world where people said this sort of thing:
"I'm sorry. I had no idea that drinking coffee (eating shrimp cocktail, snagging some sushi) when you're pregnant isn't a problem."
"My apologies. I forgot it is none of my business whether you breast feed or not."
"I know I told you that your kid would catch pneumonia if you let him run around drooling without a bib on, but I guess I was wrong."
Now dream on.
posted by Elise at 12:20 PM
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