I'm interested in what works. I'm not moved by magic or mystery. I want to know the truth about a thing purely for its own sake. Most of the luminaries that I was inspired by were whimsical. They were filled with mystique. But I found when matters of life emerged, the mystique quickly faded. That alone tells me that even with the allure and mystique they created, it was no match for the truth.
Sun Ra left his birthplace of Birmingham, Alabama for Chicago during the great migration. Then moved to Philadelphia, then to New York, then to California, before returning to his family's care in Birmingham, after suffering a stroke. This was the span of a 60 year career. If it took a stroke to bring Sun Ra back to his birthplace, if it took dire circumstances, then it begs the question and validity of everything that came before it. That tells me that the truth is far greater and far more dire than any mystique or allure can offer.
It is this that I realized is the only thing that matters. It is the only thing that lasts. That alone is magical and mystical in itself because no one explores that space. I believe Sun Ra was always Sun Ra, the journey around the world was for his eyes to see and his eyes only.
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