Medicine Song Woman leads me to a meditative state. That’s not easy, with this bouncing-ball mind in my head. Her music also brings back memories. I’m sitting in centuries-old cathedrals in France. Around me, believers genuflect and finger their rosaries. They repeat incomprehensible lines from a Latin mass. Glorious music rolls over us, reverberating...
Constance McMillen had a dancing partner. She had an outfit—a tuxedo. She even offered to arrive separately so no one would have to see her and her date arriving as a couple. Officials at Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Mississippi gagged. Allow a lesbian couple to appear in public? What about slow dancing?...
The Strange Familiar is a young indie band from Akron, Ohio. Their YouTube channel shows a group of teen musicians with a lot of talent and a lot of hope. One of my favorite phrases from the song is, “Courage is when you’re afraid but you keep on moving anyway.”
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