“If we love, we are running; and the more consistently we love, the faster we run.”

– St. Augustine

Kurt Vonnegut delivered the commencement address at my brother’s graduation from The Beekman School in NYC. It was similarly profound, pointed, and poignant.

(1) In 2006, Kurt Vonnegut sent this excellent letter to a high school class

“What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.”