What a gift this essay is - thank you! I appreciate how you share the balance between how we each need to understand our own instrument AND engage in creating the conditions for that healthy improvisation that leads us to be medicine with and for each other. I've been blessed with co-improvisors from what is called "grassroots" community -- aka, people bringing their own lived experience of oppression and their own sparks and hands-on practice of alchemy to make the flow of Love in Motion audible/able to be felt in our shared body. As an example, when people point to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I find it equally important to think about Fannie Lou Hamer. The music we’re playing with over here has a role for everyone.
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