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“To close that distance, to go step by step. . .was a true pilgrimage, a journey of the heart.” — Peter Matthiessen When I thought about starting this newsletter, one idea I had was that once a month, I could go behind the scenes of one of my Sleep Stories for Calm. My Sleep Stories are often inspired by my own journeys from the past twelve years I’ve been traveling the world.

I watch the stars from my window sillThe whole world is moving and I'm standing still The night is here and the day is goneAnd the world spins madly on —The Weepies, World Spins Madly On When you get the call or learn the truth or have the conversation and things feel like they’re falling apart, there are people you turn to who will hold you up and bring you coffee and make you laugh and let you cry.

ANDRE HARRELL September 26, 1960 - May 7, 2020 Uptown Records’ first office was in a Brooklyn duplex in Brooklyn, a work space/social club/temporary housing for the young staff. One night in 1990 Andre Harrell, Uptown Records founder, retired rapper, and party animal, threw a house party with people dancing all over the duplex space. In attendance was Beverly Bond, who’d become famous in our circle for her uninhibited, aggressive dancing.

Sweet Community, When I first started touring rock clubs as a spoken poet in 2003, the venues were completely confused. ”You mean you’re just gonna stand there and talk?” the grumpy bearded sound guy would ask. “Yep.” “You don’t play a single instrument?” “Nope.” “And you don’t sing either?” “No.” “Um… OK,” he’d say, in a tone suggesting he was preparing for the worst night of his professional career.

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The frame is tight, staring up in stoic admiration. Three hours, thirty-seven minutes, entirely black and white—unironically, like the content itself—heavy on contrast. Gone are the cigar smoke and whiskey tumbler, replaced by green powder and sunlight therapy. The scene opens with a reading from a war movie, a film that featured an actor who would later play Jesus on film, then believe himself to be the son of god.

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At the end of 2019, I had lunch with Andrew Ridgeley in London. I was finishing off a year’s filming on a documentary I was making about George Michael and was about to start post-production. Andrew had recently completed his book on Wham! and was talking about making a movie of it. He’d just done a photo shoot for a newspaper magazine to promote the book and showed me the pictures.

A lot gets made of the term Patriarchy.  noun: Patriarchy a system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family, and descent is traced through the male line. As I pored through data sets for my upcoming series on 1971, I came across the usage history of the word “patriarchy.” It’s no coincidence that the term’s popularity began around the same time radical feminism took root in western societies, roughly 1970.