good morning, dear friends!
this conversation was recorded the evening of MLK day this year: 20 January 2025. Jeff & I have gone back and forth re. when to post, and I’m finally putting it into the world in all its glorious imperfection.
when I watched it for the first time, I felt some real tenderness and sorrow … I spoke about that on last week’s muse.
here are a few notes as well as the tags for this episode. I’m not sure if the transcript is going to come through!
It was Tara Hansen playing Aunt Eller in Oklahoma! whose name I forgot early on…sorry, Tara!
Here’s Jeff speaking recently about his journey at his Unitarian Universalist church. Watching this made me teary-eyed and so grateful to witness his journey.
This conversation goes all over the map, so I won’t link everything, but some tags are below.
Learn more about the great Tony Coelho here & the history of the American Disabilities Act in this excellent article.
-a few photos from high school days-
Tags: neurodivergence; embodiment; the medium is the message; Haverford High School; Oklahoma!; Rodgers & Hammerstein; timelines; archetypes; creativity; spirituality; Hawaii; Taylor Swift; A+; Joshua Jones; Hymn the musical; Noelle Paris; Kristen Paris; in the box; making art together; Wind Beneath My Wings; Things That Go Unsaid the musical; alignment; evolving together; conservatism as safety; bipolar; bipolar bear; breaking the rules; recording; Sunnyhill Lane; Prayer to a Faithful Father; United Presbyterian Church of Manoa; Havertown, Pennsylvania; theater; songwriting; Love, Sex & the IRS; Temple University; Alan Harler; The Holocaust Cantata; Christianity; conservative Christianity; John Hicks; God Has Many Names; epilepsy; seizure disorder; brain surgery; Shawn Peter Raul Mendes; Life of the Party; focal aware seizure; feedback loop; euphoria; journeys we don’t understand; initiation points; seizure pathways; 2 golfballs of brain; seeing connections; Caddyshack; Unitarian Universalism; Kobe Bryant; Lower Merion High School; Lower Merion, Pennsylvania; Star-Spangled Banner; Haverford v. Lower Merion; NBA scouts; putting people on the map peripherally; RNS responsive neurostimulator; pacemaker; shocks; magic wands; early stage cyborg; fairies; not magic, just science; large heads; Tony Coelho; American Disabilities Act; ADA; mothers in law; human sexuality; UTEC; Merrimack Valley, Massachusetts
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