Look, I’m as ashamed and outraged as the next Canadian, maybe more, for a “security” cost of 900 million dollars for the three weeks of the Olympics here in Vancouver (and let’s just call a spade a spade and a billion a billion). Especially when the original cost was estimated at 175 million (which still seems exorbitant). I’ll write about this soon, among other thoughts. That kind of price doesn’t sound like security, it sounds like a military lockdown, or maybe I’m just not up on prices these days. And aren’t so many other human necessities in a democracy being cut back on these days?

Nevertheless, those sorts of economic disasters, even outrages (in a time of economic disasters and outrages) aside, there remains such beauty and wonder in the human form, in athleticism, in spirit. My friend Raul Ingles directed this gorgeous dance duet (called, perfectly, and making a point: Duet). Take a look, it will move you, surprise you, and lift your heart—and what more can one ask for in three or four minutes? It’s, well, it’s lovely.

Lots of love, compassion and joy to you and yours,

Pete

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