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May 21, 2026

We Built Legends and Buried Human Beings

It’s sad how often we treat musicians as disposable. The “rock-and-roll lifestyle” has become so normalized that we almost expect artists to struggle with addiction, depression, and burnout. Then, when...

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February 12, 2013

Separating the Art from the Artist

I was thinking the other day, is it possible to separate an artist from their work? Suppose you had a personal encounter with an artist you once admired (be it...

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"What we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else. It is important to tell at least from time to time the secret of who we truly and fully are . . . because otherwise we run the risk of losing track of who we truly and fully are and little by little come to accept instead the highly edited version which we put forth in hope that the world will find it more acceptable than the real thing. It is important to tell our secrets too because it makes it easier . . . for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own . . . "— Frederick Buechner

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