Ken Burns
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Podcast Appearances
So we were trying to figure out how to light up Marblehead and Cape Ann and Gloucester and Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Saco.
Maine was then the main department of Massachusetts.
And then Falmouth, which is now Portland, Maine, and Machias.
And so we'll spend months trying to just get that one thing right.
No one, if we hadn't done it, no one would care except for us.
You know, I have friends who are woodworkers, and they'd never hide a mistake.
They'd never hide a mistake.
There's a kind of craftsmanship to all of that.
You know, out in the woods by yourself, just how you relate to nature, a kind of purity, a kind of intention that you have in relationship to it.
I know you know all of that.
I can't imagine any human being could say it better than that, Joe.
I think that's exactly right.
This disconnection that we feel has come from the fact that we have become transactional beings.
Nothing is transformational.