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I’m just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change.

Dar Williams

I’ve watched towns and cities evolve and become very resilient, and fun, and unique, and prosperous on their own terms. And the secret is bridging. It’s when the local church has a fun clothing swap fundraiser with a temple, and then the next year they bring in the mosque.
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Cities Fun Unique
Every once in a while I’ll say something…I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip.
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Careers Couple Thinking
Everyone has to decide how they’re going to appear in their lives, how they’re going to put themselves out there to the world.
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Appear Lives Themselves World
I really lucked out with that song [“As Cool As I Am”]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different facets and parts of their identity, including their gentler, funnier, sillier, nurturing parts. They started showing up.
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Identity Men Song
The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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Light Night Revenge
And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
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Come Learning Magic Thinking
Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
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Life Romance Therapy
I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend.
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Career Country Jobs
What happened on “As Cool As I Am” was, you know how in the ’90s, “the personal is political, the political is personal”? That was a really big thing.
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Choices Political Real
We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.
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Done Morning Up Wake
Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field
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Again Beyond Century Field Learn
I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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Kids Parent People
I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I’ve been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.
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Kids Reading Years
There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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People Play Song
What was nice about the nineties is that it was an example of music that responded to a desire of the times. It spoke to the social conditions of the times.
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Friday Nice Night
I would encourage people to bridge broadly and creatively in their communities, not just because that creates the most fun and resiliency, but also because it creates the most points of access for people to be part of the community, which is what democracy is at its best.
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Bridges Fun People

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