Speed of Life

Underneath the bunker. We are going to get through it. pic.twitter.com/y65bsL7MsD — R.E.M. HQ (@remhq) March 21, 2020

by Gregg Chadwick 4-year-old superhero using his power to feed the homeless I am incredibly inspired by the compassion illustrated by Austin Perine from Birmingham, Alabama. CBS Sunday Morning featured the video embedded in the tweet below and it really touched my heart. Take a minute to watch and if you are inspired please click on the link below to support this young hero!  the world doesn't deserve this kid pic.twitter.com/2KPi843yA6 — Oliver Willis (@owillis) May 5, 2018 Link to Show Love and Fight Hunger GoFundMe page:  https://www.gofundme.com/show-love-fight-hunger?pc=tw_dn_cpgnsharemore_r&rcid=r01-152566420867-89057fc9c67d44fe

I enjoyed this chat with Stephanie Case. Recorded in my studio, it provides a hint of the theme of compassion that runs through my artwork.  - Thanks for listening.

by Gregg Chadwick Turn the nightly news on today, or scan the latest headlines on your iPhone, and it would seem that the world grows uglier each day. Eleven years ago,  I wrote  about my search for images of peace. I  hearken  back to those thoughts prompted by a memory  of a time in Perth, Australia  reading  an art review concerning an exhibition about non-violence. The title of the review was "How do you paint peace?" Prompted by these ongoing concerns, I have been creating a new series of paintings using ideas of New Urbanism - Los Angeles in particular with peace as a subtext. What the amazing writer, actor, and teacher Claudette Sutherland, in my studio yesterday evening, called "Love Songs to the City."  Gregg Chadwick Third L.A. (for Christopher Hawthorne) 30"x24" oil on linen 2015 Three books published in the last few years should be on every peacemaker's bookshelf: Steven Pinker's  The Better Angels of Our N...

Gregg Chadwick, KC Cole, and Amy Parish on the radio promoting the reboot of Categorically Not I had the wonderful opportunity last Friday to be on the radio with the esteemed Bonobo expert Amy Parish , and the marvelous science writer KC Cole  as we discussed Compassion and what it means in art, biology and physics.  The three of us will be giving presentations at the reboot of Categorically Not  at the Santa Monica Art Studios on December 7th 2014 at 6 pm.  Should be a fantastic evening. RSVP and other information below. Feel free to share with friends. Compassion What could be more important these days than understanding compassion : How it works and when it fails, how to persuade people that being tuned to the needs of others is actually in everyone’s personal self-interest? Despite the reputation compassion has for seeming “softhearted,” its benefits are based on well-studied mathematics and neuroscience, as well as evolutionary biology. Soc...

"Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger -- we were strangers once, too. My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too." -- President Obama, November 20, 2014 Remarks of President Barack Obama Address to the Nation on Immigration The White House November 20, 2014 As Prepared for Delivery – My fellow Americans, tonight, I’d like to talk with you about immigration. For more than 200 years, our tradition of welcoming immigrants from around the world has given us a tremendous advantage over other nations. It’s kept us youthful, dynamic, and entrepreneurial. It has shaped our character as a people with limitless possibilities – people not trapped by our past, but able to remake ourselves as we choose. But today, our immigration system is broken, and everybody knows it. Families who enter our country the right way and play by the rules watch others flout the...

Watch live streaming video from hhdl at livestream.com Live Video of the Dalai Lama at San Diego State Compassion Without Borders   **APRIL 19TH, 9:30-11:30am , San Diego State University. --Upholding Universal Ethics & Compassion in Challenging Times.-- To access the webstream, please visit < http://sdsu.edu/ > on the day and time of this event. **APRIL 19TH, 1:30-3:30pm , University of San Diego. --Cultivating Peace & Justice.-- H.H. Dalai Lama s talk will be streamed online at < http://www.sandiego.edu/dalailama/media/ > at 1:30pm on April 19th.