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Essence<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Introduction<\/a><\/td>Day 1<\/a><\/td>Day 2<\/a><\/td>Day 3<\/a><\/td>Day 4<\/a><\/td>Day 5<\/td>Day 6<\/a><\/td>Day 7<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/invidious.devianze.city\/watch?v=bckob0AyKCA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today is inspired by Billie Holiday and the song Strange Fruit. The song started life as a poem written by Abel Meeropol (under the pseudonym Lewis Allan), who set it to music and performed it with his wife in the late 1930s. Billie Holiday then recorded her cover in 1939.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southern trees bear strange fruit<\/em>
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root<\/em>
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze<\/em>
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pastor scene of the gallant south<\/em>
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouths<\/em>
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh<\/em>
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck<\/em>
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck<\/em>
For the sun to rut, for the trees to drop<\/em>
Here is a strange and bitter crop<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Really there is not much to say about today. Today is about deepening the emotional message. It\u2019s about the essence of the topic that you\u2019ve selected, the essence of what you wish to change, the essence of what you\u2019re addressing here, the essence of the injustice that you\u2019re working on. It\u2019s about not getting bogged down in the thoughts or the details, in a way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s about, for example, a table – what is the essence of a table? What is the essence of table-ness, without resorting to the aggregates, without resorting to describing the parts – these are legs, this is a flat surface – without saying that, just directly, what is the essence of table-ness? What is the direct experience of the struggle that you\u2019re describing, of the injustice, of the thing that makes you feel completely helpless? What\u2019s the essence of it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a deeply personal and emotional thing; what is the center, the gooey chocolatey center? Even if it\u2019s a negative emotion, it does have a chocolatey gooey center that can be expressed. So what is it? This is with the whole body and mind; how does it taste? How does it smell? How does it feel to the touch? What sounds does it make? In order to get to the essence, there has to be vulnerability and intimacy, and using all the senses is a way of doing that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The essence of a pearl is a grain of sand; it\u2019s an irritant that the clam experiences, and it\u2019s an irritation so severe that it finds a way of handling it by putting layers and layers around it that creates this beautiful jewel. This is basically what we\u2019re doing, we\u2019re taking the biggest irritant, the biggest discomfort and creating layers around it, and then displaying it to create change and connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though that is a long description, Strange Fruit addresses all of it without really saying a word about how.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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