In this episode I continue on the subject of what different artists and other creators consider "significant" and how some art permeates the fabric of culture. You'll hear an anecdote and reflection on the creation and lasting effect Picasso's Guernica as well as an in depth story of my personal experience creating music with my long time collaborating and friend Erol Josué over the last 20 years and its profound effect on myself and how it found its permanent place within the historic and spiritual culture of Haiti.

“Don't let anyone shame you into thinking it's not alright to change your mind, or your approach, or your philosophy, or even your medium or your career. Sometimes people get lost on their journeys, but that doesn't make those times of being lost any less significant to who we are or who we're striving to become. Every instant in our lives is, at one point, the entirety of our lives. Don't forget that - especially if you're struggling. Even when the present moment seems relentlessly heavy, the next moment is already here.”

“. . . where admittance of priests and soldiers was strictly forbidden by a "Swiss Guard" at the entranceway and the waiters were dressed as academicians; in this spirit, as I daintily double-fist a black coffee and a glass of calvados, sitting with fountain pen & paper in a dark, smokey corner of Le Chat Noir c.1882, I speak to you.”