Episode 21 (a) | I Stopped Tap Dancing (Part 1 of 2)
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Episode 21 (a) | I Stopped Tap Dancing (Part 1 of 2)
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Someone commented on a post I made about St. Louis — flowers still bloom, birds still sing, even in a city that wrestles with being the murder capital of the country — and asked: what's the point of this post? What's the objective?
And I realized I didn't owe them an answer. Not because I'm being difficult. Because the objective was mine. I took the photos. I wrote the words. I put them up. What you do with that is yours.
That moment sent me back behind this microphone to say something I should have said closer to the beginning of this podcast. I have been managing my impression. Stopping words. Softening mannerisms. Running a quiet calculation in the background about how I might be perceived. And doing that — even slightly — pulls me away from the thing this podcast is actually supposed to be.
So here's my commitment. I'm done tap dancing. What you're going to get is where I actually come from, why I actually do this, and what I actually believe about who you are underneath everything you've been told you are.
This is Part 1. Part 2 is where it goes deeper.