The Life-Changing Truths I Learned About Passion

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find-passionHave you ever loathed a household appliance? It’s Thursday, and I’m  ChromeCasting™ Kanye ‘live’ on TMZ while I  grapple with bad design in the shape of a can opener: this is my daily struggle. I have never met a can opener which exceeds 5 out of 10, and now I’m glancing at the calendar, imagining a future with self-driving cars, and shitty can-openers, knowing Elon Musk has probably overlooked this. I’m resonating with Kanye on everything. He’s making perfect sense,  and I can fill in the blanks where he’s scrambling for words. This is a passionate man, and he is spreading his wings.

What is Passion, capital ‘p’? How does it manifest? Let me count the ways.

  1. It is Felt in the Head, and Then the Heart, and then Toes

One music instructor I had as a child (bless her) insisted that I memorized notation by heart, because the technicalities…

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