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Anais this is fire. all of it.

i have a theory that playing music is 90% listening. that explains why yours is so good! and also why it's so hard to make a record over the web. how do you respond to that sidelong glance or wink from a bandmate?

am also having a hard time trying to figure out how (or if) to reconcile with the work of artists which was once transcendent but now seems repulsive. part of that is despair over their failure to see the big picture (i think a lot of the famous ones have been blackmailed or threatened into being part of the propaganda and terror campaign) but part of that is also needing more than they had to offer.

most of those gorgeous old songs weren't written in an era of comfort and egalitarianism. those musicians had to contend with regimes which were authoritarian and arbitrary and cruel, if not as sadistic as the globalists who want to reduce us to a mass of data in their machine. couldn't agree more that an artist's responsibility in 2023 is to reflect the reality we're all dealing with, whether that's confronting it directly or simply offering some kind of solace and hope. you've articulated it better than i can.

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Thank you for this incredibly kind message! I am very honored. And I love what you wrote. I'm all the more inspired to continue creating alongside all those who are similarly seeking beauty and truth and goodness... We are many!

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You are just so incredibly talented, my dear. Please write more often!! xo

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Thank you, my incredibly inspiring friend!!!

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Thank you to Tessa for introducing me to you. This is poignantly and hauntingly beautiful. It healed something I didn't know needed healing.

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That is so beautiful, thank you, Tereza!!!

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Beautifully written. Thank you 🙏.

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Your writing melted into my system and body like warm Manuka honey!!!It resonated with me on many levels and helped keep my hand carrying the torch of light just a little more stable,i can hold it tighter for myself and for everything in the universe.I listened with my pine cone and found many particles of gold dust.I found i was listening to an old friend.Thank you.

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Thank you, for this beautifully written, heart felt essay. I found this through Tessa Lens’s Substack (thank you, Tessa!). As a mother of a 15 year old daughter I relate so deeply to experiencing heartbreak about living in this age of increasing messaging that undermines and separates us from our deepest, almost inexplicable mothering wisdom and instincts. For me it feels disorienting and soul crushing at times and yet I find myself clearer about what I now to be true. And how beautifully you wove into my heart your stories of listening.

Your voice in this essay, our voices in whatever small and large we are able to use them (and whether they are spoken or form deeply in our heart and radiate from there), hold so much power to bring us back into alignment to that deeper wisdom as mothers and as human on this planet. Thank you🙏💚🕊

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Thank you for your beautiful words, Kim! Your daughter is lucky to have a mother who is obviously in tune with her and with the universe... In solidarity and gratitude!

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Your writing is such a gift to the world. I can only subscribe to help support a very, very small fraction of the Substack writers that I read. I just subscribed to yours. May other readers that can, do the same today.

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Oh, my goodness, I am overwhelmed. You are too kind!!! This does mean I need to scrape myself together and produce a little more often!!! Many thanks for your support. I am very, very moved.

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What a joy to see a new writing from you today, Anais. You are one of the writers I have most appreciated these past couple of years. Your thoughtful reflections are like a quiet walk on a newly discovered trail through familiar woods. I very much appreciate the way you weave together your personal reflections with the inescapable societal realities of our time. Thank you thank you thank you.

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Thank you for these kind and very beautiful words! I am deeply touched.

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A great stream of thoughts that we are all dealing with one way or another in these "zombie" post apocalyptic times.

Yep, they treat the symptom as the cause.

It's like the current educated people have a lot of "book knowledge" but lack basic logic. In fact, they have a magical thinking which we saw kick in during COVID, where the established virology was ignored in favor of contradictory policies (run by politics).

That's why despite all the advances, cancer, diabetes, and other issues just have been increasing.

Viruses are another way to hide the real causes of illnesses.

https://off-guardian.org/2022/08/05/the-covid-shell-game/

And the history of polio, what really caused it?

http://www.williamengdahl.com/englishNEO12July2022.php

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Yes!

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

I've been a synchronicity attender for 40+ years.

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Thank you for your kinds words, Guy! (If, according to your name, you speak French, do you know Philippe Guillemant? He introduced me to the idea of synchronicity, and listening to him inspired me greatly.)

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I don't know Philippe Guillermant! I come from a French/French Canadian lineage, and yet only know high school French.

Is my name Guy, short for Guillaume, a small synchronicity for you? :-D

I came to synchronicities via Carl Jung, who coined the phrase.

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Ah, excellent! So you have been in the belly of the beast for the last three years! I will check out your Substack. Thank you for this!

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LoL!

Amazingly enough I now consider my self having been freed from being inside the belly of the beast. I was a serious skeptic since the 1980s. It took the head butt of covid to actually turn my skepticism into a wakened state from which I am now addressing the beast more from the outside than grumbling from the inside.

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I love it. I look forward to reading you.

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What a beautiful read. Thank you.

"When I think of the people in my life whose listening skills I am in awe of they all have in common groundedness combined with humility." I have noticed the same. And truly when you do deepen into listening it's as if a 'key' is invisibly granted, and meaning shows up; the universe is clearly communicating with us. As your subway platform story conveys so well.

I look forward to reading more of your work. Best.

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Thank you so much for this kind message! And yes, well said. It is a choice we make. Part of what makes up the power of our free will--the dialogue we decide to have with our own possible future...

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