Wow, I am blown away by your ability to take a topic and touch such a vulnerable space, within really elegant writing. Your work is important and needed.
I can glimpse this within the cultures, and understand, and it's hard to keep the lens on and evaluate things through it. I'll keep reading : )
Thank you for this article. I appreciate your honesty and what you have learned from listening, being taught, thinking and examining what is in front of you. I would like to see more men be able to do this! Much appreciated!
Wow. I remember somehow picking up Quiet Storm on the radio ages ago and liking the music, realizing it was from far away (I grew up in Chicago). I had no clue. You've really made me think today, X -- as you do so often. Thanks. Amazing insight and writing.
I remember hearing the velvet sounds of Quiet Storm at night on my public radio station. This post is such a gift to me, an old white woman trying to work through, and get past, over a half century of personal ignorance, racism and patriarchy. It's a treatise on an element of intersectionality which fills a giant void in my understanding and perspective-taking. I'm tempted to use the term "barenaked" to describe the writing - heart-located, frank, emotional, vulnerable, coming from an interior space of strength, and infused with such evident Truth-Telling that I am unable to look or navigate away before conveying my gratitude. Thank you.
Terry Callier wasn't chopped liver either. He had to trek from his home in No. Chicago nearly all the way around Europe, Finland & Scandinavia to get recognized and his delicately sturdy compositions to be played with a proper folk-soul-jazz ensemble: Lazarus Man was no afterthought, although perhaps after-birth of muses a'plenty....
Nicole Willis had similar Arctic Trek from her NYC subway strap hangin' roots to find a warm embrace for her soulfully steely sounds and combos: Straighten up, you don't wanna get sucker punched by their powerful One...
Wow, I am blown away by your ability to take a topic and touch such a vulnerable space, within really elegant writing. Your work is important and needed.
I can glimpse this within the cultures, and understand, and it's hard to keep the lens on and evaluate things through it. I'll keep reading : )
Thank you for this article. I appreciate your honesty and what you have learned from listening, being taught, thinking and examining what is in front of you. I would like to see more men be able to do this! Much appreciated!
Wow. I remember somehow picking up Quiet Storm on the radio ages ago and liking the music, realizing it was from far away (I grew up in Chicago). I had no clue. You've really made me think today, X -- as you do so often. Thanks. Amazing insight and writing.
Xplisset and readers, this petition is important!
While there is still a bit of time, I am sharing this petition to prevent approval of D. T.’s unfit choice for Surgeon General.
🚩Here is a petition from Move On to stop Donald J. Trump’s choice of Casey Means from being approved as Surgeon General.
🚩To know more about Casey Means, here is a site: https://people.com/casey-means-everything-to-know-11914045
🚩https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/trumpwellness-influencer-casey-means-is-not-fit-to-be-america-s-top-doctor?source=web_share_api&utm_source=web_share_api&share=c29fe6be-b777-4ebd-aef9-4d9d8dc34766
Thank you. Just did.
Thank you, Deb!
I remember hearing the velvet sounds of Quiet Storm at night on my public radio station. This post is such a gift to me, an old white woman trying to work through, and get past, over a half century of personal ignorance, racism and patriarchy. It's a treatise on an element of intersectionality which fills a giant void in my understanding and perspective-taking. I'm tempted to use the term "barenaked" to describe the writing - heart-located, frank, emotional, vulnerable, coming from an interior space of strength, and infused with such evident Truth-Telling that I am unable to look or navigate away before conveying my gratitude. Thank you.
Bravo X. Thank you for taking me to school again.
Terry Callier wasn't chopped liver either. He had to trek from his home in No. Chicago nearly all the way around Europe, Finland & Scandinavia to get recognized and his delicately sturdy compositions to be played with a proper folk-soul-jazz ensemble: Lazarus Man was no afterthought, although perhaps after-birth of muses a'plenty....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQWD-Hz5YuQ
Terry Callier - Lazarus Man
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Callier
Nicole Willis had similar Arctic Trek from her NYC subway strap hangin' roots to find a warm embrace for her soulfully steely sounds and combos: Straighten up, you don't wanna get sucker punched by their powerful One...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VqgObCWq-o
Nicole Willis & UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra - Still Got a Way to Fall ("..Before We Are Forgiven...")
"...It's anyone's guess\Where we'll end up..." \ "And we still got a way to fall\Before we r forgiven"
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