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On the Beach Alone at Night: Meshell Ddegeocello Reads Walt Whitman’s Ode to the Interconnectedness of Life

We live our lives by tidal forces — vast oceanic waves of change and chance sweeping us together, stranding us apart, washing over us with their all-subsuming totality of feeling, only to retreat and then begin anew before we have fully regained our breath and our footing. What buoys us is the awareness that, however distant and desolate the shore might appear, however dark and cold the waters of