Sublime

Sonny said, “If music is in your heart, you can’t do anything wrong.”

We tend to think Bruce Springsteen is Bruce Springsteen because of his poetic lyrics and energetic concerts; we think that someone whose songs are that powerful has to be a world-famous artist. Those are necessary ingredients. But they aren’t sufficient. Bruce Springsteen is also Bruce Springsteen because, at the age of twenty-one, he was willing t

Just as trees grow flowers and fruits, humanity creates works of art.

One could trace the equally strange trajectory that created rock and roll out of African and Scots-Irish musical traditions in the American South, then sent rock and roll around the world, so that a sound that had once been endemic to the South was intrinsic to dissent in Europe’s east. Or the ricocheting trajectory by which Thoreau, abolitionists,

Be clear that what you’re sharing is how you see the person when you portray them as impossible, their all-time worst. Own your exaggeration; it might take the bite out of the description.

Let It Be