"I came out of that and said I don't want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt."

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Dar Williams

Singer-songwriter

Dar Williams is a singer-songwriter known for her insightful lyrics that explore themes of love, identity, and social issues, particularly in her album 'The Green World'.

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"Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it doesn't work. But if you just concentrate on what is the identity of your town - its waterfalls, its battles, its notable mill strike or those things - you dig into what your town is from its rock formations to its history to its food. Then this thing called community happens all the time."

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