Tee Sharpe 

west coaster
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This makes me so happy. Discovering connections like this, sparking dialogue, and supporting artists’ work . . . This is why I started Sift. Shift. Lift.

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It is pretty powerful. I wrote a poem in the 90s inspired by a woman, an actress in Sarajevo, who said she’d walked 3 miles to get water to wash her hair before going on stage to play Ophelia amidst the sniper fire. That image and the image of the cellist playing amidst the ruins of Sarajevo are such potent reminders of the role the arts play in our survival and resilience.

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So true! Makes me want to put my phone down more often. How have these devices both expanded and shrunk our creativity.

Darkness and the Year Without a Summer