In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – 2007) was the only one to respond - and his response is magnificent:
“Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:
I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.
What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.
Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.
Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?
Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash receptacals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.
God bless you all!"
Kurt Vonnegut
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Perfect timing.
While the entire country is focused on the biggest election theft in our country’s history, big moves are happening on the global chessboard.
I think there’s an important narrative playing out, that is moving along as scheduled and will shock the world when it happens.
I believe two wars are going to come to a dramatic end.
Nobody in the media is expecting it because they think the stolen midterm election, just gave Iran and Ukraine, the leverage they needed to avoid defeat.
Once again, the seemingly impossible accomplishment, will catch the media and the world by surprise.
And Trump’s most trusted aide, Jared Kushner deserves the credit.
The world is changing.
Wars are coming to an end.
SOVEREIGNTY is being made GREAT AGAIN.
The big election loss, was supposed to weaken Trump and embolden his enemies.
But we only see about 20% of what’s actually happening.
Don’t let the “public” narrative fool you.
Even the democrats know what’s coming and are panicked.
Nothing can stop what is coming.
@WhiteHouse@POTUS@VP You need to visit at least once in your life. It will stir something in you that you didn’t know was there.
Unless you are a pinko commie.
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"To inherit a free nation is among the rarest blessings that any people in history have ever known. To DEFEND that freedom is among the hardest and highest obligations." - President Donald J. Trump