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Speaking of ideas, here’s a good one: write emails to people (friends, people you’ve fallen out of touch with, friends of friends, complete strangers, anyone, really) who work in fields you're interested in pursuing and ask them for professional advice.
The death of Robin Williams has left me in a state of suspended animation. I didn't know the man. But I knew the artist. And I was so often deeply moved and shaken to my core by elements of his creative output, that he was one artist I was not hesitant to call a genius.
But whenever a creative person dies of an apparerent suicide or overdose, I feel my body tense, as though in some important way, the deaths of these sensitive souls might be some kind of reflection of an ever expanding courseness in our society, one in which profit is valued over talent and little space is made to accomodate the big mushy egos that often come with bold achiements in a creative sphere.
What do Whitney Houston, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Michael Jackson and Robin Williams all have in common?
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