a series of musings nearly entitled, “I am frightened by the way people tire of the world.”

I have had a negative amount of desire to write but Toni Morrison said it’s your job to write when evil wishes to distract you so. Here I am, I suppose. The thesis of today’s musings are that we want the fiction of a happy ending more than we want actual liberation.

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Selected Jazz of the Episode:

Muziqa heywete x Getatchew Mekurya

Afternoon of a Swan x Speedy West

HOW CAN WE MEND A BROKEN HEART x Kahil El’Zabar

Love and Peace x Quincy Jones

A Taste of Honey x Andy Bey, The Bey Sisters

Better Than x Lake Street Drive

Soul Serenade x Aretha Franklin

La notte muore (orchestra) x Sandro Brugnolini

Sweet Leilani x Les Paul & His Trio

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