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<blockquote>I have to hold on to the fact that I have my own life, and I have duties that I have to perform. I have a family to take care of. But I also have the same calling I did when I was young: to nourish and to do the work that I believe I was given the possibility to do. I’m not going to let anything shake that faith, no matter what kind of rubble or debris of our time I have to walk through. . . . I’m just going to keep doing my work. Patti Smith (2025)<ref>Patti Smith, “Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever,” The Ezra Klein Show, New York Times, online@1:15:50</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>I have to hold on to the fact that I have my own life, and I have duties that I have to perform. I have a family to take care of. But I also have the same calling I did when I was young: to nourish and to do the work that I believe I was given the possibility to do. I’m not going to let anything shake that faith, no matter what kind of rubble or debris of our time I have to walk through. . . . I’m just going to keep doing my work. Patti Smith (2025)<ref>Patti Smith, “Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever,” The Ezra Klein Show, New York Times, online@1:15:50</ref></blockquote> | ||
<p>Halloween, I decided to call my memoir, <i>Unfinished — A Working Life</i>. Starting it had been difficult. Old, with my countdown underway, I worried that my best work still laid fallow in my drawers. With much wanting attention, where should I begin? And once begun, what thread would hold it all together? But don't all lives just end, unfinished | <p>Halloween, I decided to call my memoir, <i>Unfinished — A Working Life</i>. Starting it had been difficult. Old, with my countdown underway, I worried that my best work still laid fallow in my drawers. With much wanting attention, where should I begin? And once begun, what thread would hold it all together? But don't all lives just end, unfinished</p> | ||
2025 calls a lot into question, but wasn't all that actually in question long ago, before my birth, as far back as we might take it? We'll consider the burden of circumstance, but let's do so, to nourish and to do the work that we believe we were given the possibility to do. That's life, actual life, working to do what we were given the possibility to do. [[User:Robbie|Robbie]] ([[User talk:Robbie|talk]]) 10:01, 23 November 2025 (MST) | <p>2025 calls a lot into question, but wasn't all that actually in question long ago, before my birth, as far back as we might take it? We'll consider the burden of circumstance, but let's do so, to nourish and to do the work that we believe we were given the possibility to do. That's life, actual life, working to do what we were given the possibility to do. [[User:Robbie|Robbie]] ([[User talk:Robbie|talk]]) 10:01, 23 November 2025 (MST)</p> | ||
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Unfinished—A Working Life
I have to hold on to the fact that I have my own life, and I have duties that I have to perform. I have a family to take care of. But I also have the same calling I did when I was young: to nourish and to do the work that I believe I was given the possibility to do. I’m not going to let anything shake that faith, no matter what kind of rubble or debris of our time I have to walk through. . . . I’m just going to keep doing my work. Patti Smith (2025)[1]
Halloween, I decided to call my memoir, Unfinished — A Working Life. Starting it had been difficult. Old, with my countdown underway, I worried that my best work still laid fallow in my drawers. With much wanting attention, where should I begin? And once begun, what thread would hold it all together? But don't all lives just end, unfinished
2025 calls a lot into question, but wasn't all that actually in question long ago, before my birth, as far back as we might take it? We'll consider the burden of circumstance, but let's do so, to nourish and to do the work that we believe we were given the possibility to do. That's life, actual life, working to do what we were given the possibility to do. Robbie (talk) 10:01, 23 November 2025 (MST)
- ↑ Patti Smith, “Patti Smith on the One Desire That Lasts Forever,” The Ezra Klein Show, New York Times, online@1:15:50