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“Jimi Hendrix would never have the chance to return to Woodstock to create a universal language. He would never again record at Electric Lady. I felt that we had all lost a friend. I pictured his back, the embroidered vest, and his long legs as he went up the stairs and out into the world for the last time.”

"The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false...[it] ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth. Behaving unethically, with no thought to the consequences of our actions, is a bit like eating tons of junk food,...in the end the body is never really adequately nourished and remains in a constant state of lack..."

William J. Mann did such fantastic work with “Tinseltown” and “The Contender” that I had to snag a copy of this.

A short, bedtime listen. 🔮

“Paper money had been used in America since colonial times, but until the 1860s its issue had been sporadic and local. In 1690, the Massachusetts Bay Colony printed notes, intended to finance a military expedition to Canada, that are believed to be the first issue of paper tender by a Western governmental body.“

Such a fascinating listen. I love listening an author narrate their own story.

"Both of us had given ourselves to others...but we had found one another again. We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free."

Love.

"We would work side by side for hours, in a state of mutual concentration."

Comfortable silences while exploring your artforms side by side with a soulmate... Love.

Listening to this one in bed and a ghost just went to a university class “to soak up learning.”

Vibes. 😂

"From the time I first read Genesis, as a child who knew that I didn't fit the male/female binary, it has been clear to me that the "image of God" has nothing to do with sex, gender, human differences, or human bodies. If our goal is to recognize our kinship with God, we need to look to the aspects of humanity that can't be conceived in terms of gender, to the ways in which we...exceed or confound human categories."

Cracking this baby open to ring in 2026. Thank you for the gift, my dearest Sophie! 💛