Watching Luke Combs sing beside Tracy Chapman with such obvious reverence makes the difference between appropriation and appreciation crystal clear.
When someone engages source material in a spirit of love, it shows.
Count all the ways he centers her, not himself 👇🏾
Thinking again about "Fast Car" and how the lines "I know things'll get better / You'll find work and I'll get promoted / And we'll move out of the shelter / Buy a bigger house and live in the suburbs" convey more meaning than entire novels sometimes do.
“do you know excel”
no, but i know kindness. i know friendship. i know love. i know how to see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower. i know how to hold Infinity in the palm of my hand, and eternity in an hour.
“Read. Read as much as possible... Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world… Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a regular basis, so that getting awed is habitual and becomes a state of being.”
Nick Cave's advice on life https://t.co/TkF7Gprs8W
plenty going on here but one of many things that leapt out to me was that mere moments after she went with the “be kind to people” bit, she was yelling at workers