Honesty is the best poetry

K-os says it best: http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=1130063130 (I encourage you to watch the entire interview.) 

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For the past number of weeks I have been questioning my own honesty. Asking the question, what is my first responsibility: to be real or to be understood? 

I am a believer that “the Truth shall set you free.” (John 8:32) While this verse from the Bible is speaking of Jesus, I also believe it is speaking of every truth — every bit of honesty.

The truth shall set us free. 

Honesty / truthfulness are our first responsibility: to ourselves, to each other and to God. Nothing else will do. 

To k-os, an artist I have long loved and admired, honesty is the best poetry. I couldn’t agree with him more.