{"id":15781,"date":"2012-03-25T10:38:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T17:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15781"},"modified":"2012-03-25T10:39:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T17:39:04","slug":"egoism-in-action-the-face-of-splendor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15781\/egoism-in-action-the-face-of-splendor\/","title":{"rendered":"Egoism in action: The face of Splendor&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Jim Klein fingered this video this morning:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cz5PMRzWw_w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Forget the context. It doesn&#8217;t matter. What I want for you to see is that young man&#8217;s face just as he finishes playing. This is the face of Splendor. This is egoism <em>in action.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/GavinMGeorge.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%22Gavin+M+George%22&#38;oq=%22Gavin+M+George%22&#38;aq=f&#38;aqi=&#38;aql=&#38;gs_l=youtube.3...33062l47344l0l47653l5l5l0l0l0l0l285l695l0j3j1l4l0\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin M. George is a virtuoso pianist in the making<\/a>, and I don&#8217;t want to imply that anything of his is mine, nor mine his. I just want to celebrate his accomplishment. I am in his debt, and I am very grateful to him.<\/p>\n<p>But the delight he himself takes in his playing is the thing that makes us human. No one could give him that soaring feeling, and no one can take it away from him. He shares his gift with us, but the best part of the riches he owns are his and his alone, not to be seized nor even <em>seen<\/em> by other people.<\/p>\n<p>This is what we are, at our best. This is what you&#8217;re aiming for &#8212; when you are working at <em>your<\/em> best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Jim Klein fingered this video this morning: Forget the context. It doesn&#8217;t matter. What I want for you to see is that young man&#8217;s face just as he finishes playing. This is the face of Splendor. This is egoism in action. Gavin M. George is a virtuoso pianist in the making, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,212,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-group-therapy","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16387,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16387\/rock-me-mama-egoism-in-action-the-link-from-art-to-human-values-and-back\/","url_meta":{"origin":15781,"position":0},"title":"Rock Me Mama Egoism In Action: The link from art to human values and back.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Everything is all one thing, so this is a video essay about art about music about morality about song-writing about marriage about redemption \u2013 simple stuff. 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