I Don't Think Everything Is Going To

I'm From A Very Politically And Socially Conscious Family. My Mother Always Made A Point Of Making Us Look At What Was Going On Around Us And Take Stock Of Our Part In It.

I'll Lean On You And You Lean On Me And We'll Be Okay.

So Often We Talk About Saving The Planet, But What We Really Mean Is To Save The Planet The Way It Is, So We Can Live Here. So That Is Can Sustain Us. Because The Planet Doesn't Need To Be Saved. It Doesn't Care If All The Squirrels, Elephants, And Trees Die And There's Just A Couple Of Amoebas Floating Around At The Poles.

I Grew Up In A Very Politically Aware Family. My Mother Always Taught Me To Question Everything, Never Believing Anything Simply At Face Value - Especially The Nicest, Most Adamant Politicians.

I Think Making Things That Aren't Necessarily Shiny, Happy Feelings, Putting Them In That Environment Is Sometimes An Easy Way To Deal With The Ugliness. Like, I Know That As A Kid, That I Found - I Think I Learned This A Bit From My Mother - That If I Could Be As Warm Around Strangers, No Matter How Strange Or What Different Environment I Was In, That People Tended To Be Warm Back.