Fujimura closed his address by quoting Tolkien's Haldir of Lothlorien: 'The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.' It was a line that resonated deeply in the aftermath of Japan's triple disaster. In his final charge to the Belhaven graduates—many of them artists, musicians, and dancers—Fujimura called them to create upon their own 'Ground Zero conditions,' to step into the receding, poisoned waters of the world with faith. He promised that if they did, the stench of death would be replaced by what he called 'the aroma of the New'—the stage behind the stage would open up, and instead of surrendering to cold earth, they would dance upon the waters, hear new sounds, and create new colors. It was an extraordinary vision of the artist's calling as an act of love amid brokenness.