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Rita Kara Robinson's avatar

YEAH!!!!! Great words. And what beautiful clips. Our eyes need to bathe in this.

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Ryan Delaney's avatar

If we only lived when there was never darkness in the world, we’d never live.

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Kat Walsh's avatar

Russell, these clips made me cry for the first time since the election—a good thing. I’ve hardly taken a breath, but I’ve decided to dance through it all.

I’ve started dancing on TikTok, on Instagram, and at concerts—which I go to often. The feeling of appreciation for musicians creating an evening of joy moves me, and I move with it. At Tumbleroot and beyond, I dance a lot, in community, letting the music carry me.

Listening, dancing, sharing—that’s how I’m living my life right now.

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Russell Max Simon's avatar

An inspiration Kat :)

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Deborah Babin's avatar

What you fail to realize or acknowledge purposefully IS many are dancing because they are

celebrating the election! Primarily ME!

Yes! Dance, dance, dance!

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Caroline Smrstik's avatar

That is all we have, Russell. Thank you for the reminder.

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mani malagón's avatar

«When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.» —Jacob A. Riis

Not really Jacob, just dance as if your life was a Sufi moment under the sun. & If you can, dance in the moonlight with the love of your life till every heartbeat pounds the earth beating to your feet. & Don't stop laughing as you move!

& Dance the fact that we've been an oligarchy since the 1913 Banker's Coup d'Etat & all oir media is censored, & madness permeates every crack & nook of modern life into oblivion; as if your bare feet pattern footprints around a primeval fire before language shattered Babel —dance as if your sanity depends on moving to a milonga, bachata or waltz, the internal & international language of the heart.

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