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I have a sordid past.

Dar Williams

One of them looked at me and shook her head, like “Don’t do that.” I think she was doing it to say, “It doesn’t work.” She didn’t say anything but it was this cautionary moment. I knew it didn’t work. There are just so many other words to choose from.
DAR WILLIAMS

Look Moment One Shook Work
God looks like a guidance counselor, God’s got that smile. God says, ‘How could this be? That’s really odd I guess I’ll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I’m only God.’
DAR WILLIAMS

Looks Records Silly
And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
DAR WILLIAMS

Come Learning Magic Thinking
There’s tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that’s okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don’t know what to do with all those feelings.
DAR WILLIAMS

Bullshit Feelings Towns
A straightforward capitalist society would’ve cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.
DAR WILLIAMS

Friend Psychotherapy Society Straightforward
At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.
DAR WILLIAMS

Country People Portland Roots
It’s a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn’t send it.
DAR WILLIAMS

Child Children Labor Slavery
Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
DAR WILLIAMS

Compass Ships Skills
I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
DAR WILLIAMS

Leader Parent Religious
And you bring your words, But you’re just like them, You’re unprepared ‘Cause you don’t know the terrain
DAR WILLIAMS

Causes Knows Terrain
The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
DAR WILLIAMS

Light Night Revenge
There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.
DAR WILLIAMS

Cities Distance Honesty
They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won’t do a better job of it.
DAR WILLIAMS

Jobs Praying World
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

Change Movement Structure Trying
I have a sordid past.
DAR WILLIAMS

Happen Past Sordid
Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
DAR WILLIAMS

Echo Kindness Time

I have a sordid past.

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