But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.
Dar WilliamsI'm just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change.
Dar WilliamsYoull almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.
Dar WilliamsI started going out with one of my managers and he really grew me up in a lot of ways. He introduced me not just to being a full-time traveler, which I was, but he was also really very interested in history and art and continued to open my eyes up to regional history; less splashy histories. He was interested in historical societies and stuff like that. He introduced me to a way of looking at the way communities form that is the foundation for the book that I've just finished writing that has to do with what I see as effective community-building wherever I've been traveling.
Dar WilliamsIn terms of our democracy, we are sort of shrugging our shoulders and saying, oh dear, Guantรกnamo, that's so awful, that's so awful, but it's here. The pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it's never going to swing back.
Dar Williams