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The story of a musical collaboration's origin, highlighting the serendipitous moments and creative struggles that forged a career.
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So I gave it to him. And on stage, he referenced a story in my book. He said he really liked it that I had used the word eleemosynary, because he hadn't seen that word since some other book. And it was in a story I wrote only to use big words that I thought were pretentious, because who knows what they mean. And then three months later, I hadn't
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The patterns of reciprocity by which mosses bind together a forest community offer us a vision of what could be. They take only the little that they need and give back in abundance. Their presence supports the lives of rivers and clouds, trees, birds, algae, and salamanders, while ours puts them at risk. Human-designed systems are a far cry from
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Reb was a cheerful soul, a man of boundless enthusiasm, who believed the Talmud empowered him with the gift of making everyone around him happy and comfortable, including Negroes, whom he saw as fellow immigrants who, like him, were forced by poverty and lack of resources to learn many skills and continually adjust.
James McBride • The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel
Baldwin pushed himself beyond mere description into a higher literary region of sounds and rhythms, of shared faith and shared emotions: The church was very exciting. It took a long time for me to disengage myself from this excitement, and on the blindest, most visceral level, I never really have, and never will. There is no music like that music,
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