Turn on the light and the darkness goes

“Don’t fight the darkness. Don’t even worry about the darkness. Turn on the light and the darkness goes. Turn up that light of pure consciousness: Negativity goes” - David Lynch

Those who know, know: of the three most impactful artists of my life, the three artists I hold in the highest regard, the three artists that changed not only how I look at the world but how I navigate it, along with Bob Dylan and Leo Tolstoy, there is David Lynch - David Lynch, THE most important contributor of art to my life. What taking the red-pill was like for Neo, discovering and digesting Twin Peaks for the first time was the equivalent to me. There was life before discovering Twin Peaks at the age of fifteen one seemingly-ordinary-random day after school where I decided to put on the pilot episode on a whim and fell in love forever, and life afterward. This impact I cannot stress enough in words, but those who know, those who really know me, can attest to just how much David and his work means to me and how it got me through the really toughest times in my life where I really needed them to push through in my weakest moments. David, who affirmed my universal love for the individual and the love and light the individual can bring to the circulation of the world, as perfectly illustrated with the work he, on his time on the Earth, left behind. No one sowed the virtue of peace in me in such a genuine and heartfelt way more than this man, and that reason above all is why I felt compelled to eulogize the man, more so than the fact that he is the creator of some of my favorite works of art in all of existence. If somehow you’re hovering above me and you’ve read every word I’ve typed, then thank you David. Thank you for all you gifted the world. Forever and ever, to my dying day, will I spend the rest of my life coming back to the joy of your works. I’ll see you in the trees.

“While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch and I’ll gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method… is love.”