Author: Daniel Thompson
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Podcast: Music is the key to our shackles.
Music has always been my way of escaping the shackles of daily life. In this episode of Inside the Mind of Daniel Thompson, I explain why music means so much to me and has had such a variety of influences and uses throughout my life. You might even find that it has had similar impacts…
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PODCAST: ‘Love, Literature and Time’
Love — or my view of it — and the literature I read have often been linked in my mind, with one informing the other. Take a walk with me through some examples of this relationship and how it has shaped how I’ve looked at love throughout my life. I’ll also tell you where I…
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With nothing. And no one.
He sits alone at a table smoking a cigarette. Well, alone and not alone. Throughout the day across from him will sit old friends, lovers, his parents, brothers … the list goes on and on. The only limit being who he can remember well enough to be able to still hear their voice talking back…
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PODCAST: ‘We were here, and we mattered.’
Lately, I’ve thought a lot about the Kenosha music scene. And, I had a realization and wanted to share it in an episode of “Inside the Mind of Daniel Thompson“. Really, I remembered how important creatives are to their local communities. Likewise, I recalled how — statistically — there are many things stacked against them.…
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Natural American Spirit, Black
Turning and returning, Becoming and unbecoming, We all saunter home. Life hadn’t been The extravagant feast We had been expecting. Left starving and cold, We walked the streets, Weary ghosts longing for a bed. Dead things better off living, Among the living things better off dead.
