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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people – not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base – is through education.
I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last ’60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
Dwight is a sad clown. You’ve seen those paintings of sad clown.
I know what I look like – a weird, sad clown puppet. I’m fine with that.
So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don’t live my life that way, and I don’t feel that’s what Baha’u’llah teaches.
Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we’re here: We’re here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.
I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life’s big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don’t get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I’m just a screwball all day long.
My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.