Note to Readers

TFP takes a two-week summer vacation, and recommends the brilliant Harmony Holiday. Stay tuned for next week’s recommendation.

Harmony Holiday, poet, author, and publisher of Black Music and Black Muses.

Like other human beings this time of year, I’m taking time off to sweat and think and eat and drink and shut up and listen. One of the voices I’m listening to is Harmony Holiday, who sings the truth in every post, not just about music but the souls from which it rises and flows. Like the music she loves, every sentence is “a portal to all kinds of renewal and understanding." Beautiful, brilliant, and necessary. I’m off for two weeks, trading in my keyboard for other people’s tunes. Do yourself a favor and read Black Music and Black Muses. Click on the link below to read one of my favorite posts of hers, chosen from a long list of favorites. Like the poet Ai said of The Kid: She’s a wind from nowhere. She can break your heart. — MJ

My Message and My Minstrels