I attended my first Detroit Urban Consulate Parlor Talk in June 2016 to hear Marsha Music, who has been a FB friend. I was going to be giving a Parlor Talk the following week and felt this would be an opportunity for me to meet Marsha as i have enjoyed seeing and hearing her virtually . I also wanted to get a feel for the setting at the Urban Consulate.
I was overcome with a sense of joy, melancholy, gratitude, optimism, reality, and so many emotions all wrapped up in my response to what Marsha shared ...
Marsha's words when talking story, her message in her poems she read, her personality, her brutal yet graceful honesty about so many issues that do linger in my subconscious, her warmth for all that were in attendance, her generosity in acknowledging others made it a very special evening.
I did not record all of the talk but here is what I got and I hope you find listening as worthwhile as I did.
I have since read so much more of Marsha work, I've had a long conversation by phone the day after her talk that I treasure as she has so much wisdom to share. I was so pleased Marsha attended my parlor talk and shared her heart and so grateful to know Marsha.
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