

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall in love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin --
Find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less... You will be able to go around the world, learning languages, speaking to everybody, because no one can be more human than you or be less human... Remember that.

It's been a few *cough* years since I've written anything akin to a guest post on another blog. In fact, I'm not even sure they're called ...
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I have a reputation for despising platitudes. You know, those trite expressions people offer you when they hope to make you feel ...
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Yesterday was a strange day. Well, the last month or so has been strange, but yesterday, particularly so. For the ...
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