HeyJaredThe Path of Shabazz
This is an open invitation to follow the practice of an artist and lay bodhisattva in training. I will share my discoveries, muses, paintings, sculptures, writings, artifacts and meditations here. See my art gallery at www.Larkinart.co
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Keep Playing And See What Happens (opens the original)
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I have this mantra in my studio, that sometimes I forget: Keep playing and see what happens!This morning, before I had done much of anything else, I turned on my looper and began making music.I love making music. Perhaps more than painting. More than sculpting. More than drawing. I could make music all day.I did not say that I make good music.I said that I love to make it.There is a difference.I remember Mos Def once saying something about people who truly love music eventually trying to make it
Tick Tock Triple Step (opens the original)
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Have fun. Have the floor.The clock has never stopped ticking.And it won’t stop for you.It won’t waitfor perfect circumstances.It won’t pausebecause you have a reason to cry.It doesn’t carethat you’ve got a cough.Or that your toe hurts.Or that the tornado tore through your neighborhood.Or that a global pandemic rearranged your whole world.The clock keeps onTick.Tock.The mortgage is due.The taxes are due.Somebody has to change the air filter.There
The Best Story Pitch is A Pitch of Your Story (opens the original)
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When I think about movements for justice, we often think about organizers, advocates, the protesters, the policymakers, and the activists. But what about the storytellers?In this conversation, I sat down with Avril Speaks of Christians for Social Action to talk about the role artists and storytellers play in shaping culture. As Avril put it, “Movements do not become durable through urgency alone. They need memory. They need songs, stories, rituals, images.” That idea will stay with me.We also sh
Everybody Has to Find What They Can Do (opens the original)
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