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Let me put my hands on you.
Could I take it?
I could take it …
I wasnt sure the band could.
Or if I should be asking them to.
His analogies do sometimes smack of corniness.
We spent a lot of every day unpacking each other.
Ali asks, as I stretch this metaphor as far as it will go.
(At one point, he includes a list of reasons to love Johnny Cash.
Jesus Christ took his initials.)
In some cases we poured it onto the good peoples cornflakes.
And some people like to pour their own milk.
And others are lactose intolerant.
And I recognize my own role in all this.
As mindful as he is about how he comes across, there are times when that self-awareness slips.
The arc of the moral universe does not bend toward justice, he writes.
It has to be bent, and this requires sheer force of will.
It demands our sharpest focus and most concentrated effort.
Thats the line I want to walk, he says, citing Cash as inspiration.
The wanderlust in the wanderer.
