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I’m Chris Preston, writer and recording artist. This is where you’ll find all of the writings I want to share as well as everything there is to know about my music and process.
Some days, it feels like there will never be enough tears to externalize the pain we experience at hands of the selfish, the evil and the stupid. But they will eventually run out. When they do, violence may occur. Perhaps that will be a failure too. When we are powerless, thinking clearly is the most difficult thing to do.
It’s fascinating that fifty or sixty years ago, many people thought the country was doomed. Really. How adorable that was.
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They’re sleepwalking. I started to notice the pattern this week and now it’s everywhere I look. No fewer than half a dozen times this week, I’ve asked someone a simple question and received a non-answer, or one that shows no understanding of the question I’m asking. For example, I recently canceled a credit card. I…



“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.”
Walt Whitman