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All the broken and shunned creatures.

Someone's got to care for them.

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The August September, October solo show.

Let's just call it the next solo show.

And I'm going to try something different, although maybe you won't notice that much of a difference,

but the notes I typically use to read off are are going to be they are necessarily a bit more

fragmented for this challenging topic and it's and I got to be honest it was the same thing with the newsletter the newsletter and last month's solo show got caught in

I guess the same creative constipation sort of stuck behind my general dismay not in the

events of the world the world's going to do what the world is going to do, right? But in many of the reactions that I have

seen to the events of the world, admittedly I am referring to online reactions.

Having just spent a month meeting so many of you face to face,

the sanity in real life is far more evidence.

So that's one of the many good news pieces. As with these things,

the solo shows when we talk about this kind of stuff, challenging stuff, it will

always end on the up. It is a song for the lonely, right?

And I guess part of that creative constipation

was whether or not waiting into contentious discussions, benefits contentious discussions or improves it or fixes it in any way and then it was that realizing that talking about how we talk about contentious issues is in fact the

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