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Danusia Malina-Derben's avatar

Brigitte, I LOVE this! Why did my brain not connect you and Clay? Did you know we know one another too? So truly happy to read this and other work. Let’s reconnect my love.

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Geoffrey Deihl's avatar

I don't know if you're a jazz fan, but I am listening to a 1959 recording, "Introducing Wayne Shorter." As great as this album is, he was just at the beginning of far more exploration and innovation. He's an example of what a human mind free of preconceptions can create. The system robs children of their imagination and belief anything can be, which Wayne retained until his death just months ago. Humans demand conformity from the smallest social circles to entire nations, and if you risk being different, you risk being outcast, or worse. Shorter treated everyone he met with full attention and respect, never abused his genius, and sought to lift those around him with his gifts. That is the best of being a human, and unfortunately rare and incapable of defeating the coarser, I'll politely say less enlightened types. Any of us with gifts have a responsibility to share them for the greater good, not self aggrandizement. Finding at least a few people similar in their thinking makes a huge difference in keeping going. Wayne, entire album. https://youtu.be/iSJTyUsv_bQ

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