"I don't know what painting teaches me... I know that it just frees me.

Something inside you is always telling a story. And I believe every single thing that you see and hear is talking to you.

The bottom line with all of this, whether it is performance or it's art or it's sculpture, is love. We want to show ourselves and have that be accepted.

I love being alive and the art is the evidence of that." -- Jim Carrey

“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. One of the greatest gifts you can give anybody is the gift of your honest self. And it’s a mistake to think that we have to be 'perfect' or 'lovely' to be loved by human beings or by God.” -- Fred Rogers

be unbreakable... be alive, dammit... it's a miracle!

(females are strong as hell)

sometimes the power goes off unexpectedly and you find yourself surrounded by darkness... maybe it's because you tripped over a cord or maybe a storm rolled in and caused a transformer to blow... all you know is you're alone, full of fear, and you can't see the path forward... in those times, it's okay to freeze for a minute and wonder what the hell is going on... but eventually, you've gotta start the slow trudge out of the tar... and as you start moving, you'll begin to hear the voices of others marching out of the dark along with you... it will sound something like this:

it's okay to not be okay... you're never alone... don't give up

"I wondered what would come of our interaction. If nothing else, I thought it would make a good story. But I see now that the story isn't about us; it's about what it means to bother to know someone, which is really a story about what it means to be known."

https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/the-36-questions-scientists-say-can-make-any-two-people-fall-in-love.html

attempt to climb towards the truth, update your beliefs, have deep and truthful conversations with yourself, face and confront the things that you’re most afraid of, lay out your story in all its catastrophe and detail, and then you may be ready to responsibly undertake the ultimate adventure:
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allow another person to show you their true face… and do not run

turn off the noise of rational fear, listen for the call of irrational Love, and then pick up the phone

deep in our souls, we know that we are not meant to spend our lives in isolated boxes pushing papers from one desk to another

a wise musician once said, "a working class hero is something to be"... and since music has the power to set people free, it would be wise for musicians to focus tour stops where people are the most enslaved and in need of champions: prisons, churches, corporate boardrooms, schools/universities, the internet, and more