2025 Week 09 – Curate Unity In Your Life
This weekend, I watched 3 generations of my family work together doing music and art. It was a beautiful moment that I realized had to be curated. My brother and I spoke on it afterwards and came to the understanding that we are the glue that holds the family together. In order for moments like this to happen, someone has to say, “come over today, I’ll set some equipment up downstairs and let’s make some music!” Then everyone has to demonstrate a desire to participate. This is the same at your jobs, and in your schools, and communities. If you want everyone working together, you have to purposely create the environment, pick the projects, and lead in the discovering of roles and responsibilities for all. Working across societal norms does not simply happen by magic. My son and nephews do not make the same kind of music that my brothers and I make. We do not make the same kind of music that my uncles make. I just knew that we all had music in common. None of us do the same type of art with the same type of mediums, but we do all make art. We’ve been wanting moments like this for years and when it finally happened, there was a realization that we had to curate the moment. This seems such a simple lesson that perhaps our country is losing sight of.
