[Philip II of Macedon to Sparta]: “If I invade Laconia you will be destroyed, never to rise again.”
[Sparta]: “If.”

This is another of the videos for After the Yellow Ribbon, which was last weekend and went startlingly well — nothing major went wrong, that I know about. And people actually talked about how to heal the wounds of war in soldiers and communities — they were concrete, honest about their positions, and they listened well to one another. It gives me hope for conversations not having to go completely off the rails just because the topic is controversial.

This is the one interview for which I was the interviewer:

Jeremy Begbie: On the arts as a resource for healing and reintegration from Pilar Timpane on Vimeo.