By Charlotte Fron
“I’ve never wanted to stop being that kid who really wants to raise a middle finger to anybody.
“I’m a loudmouth who thinks he’s right all the time. And I have no inhibitions of putting it out there. My biggest problem, to this day, is shutting up and listening. It’s still a struggle for me. Listening gives me the comfort of knowing that I’m not just a bullshit artist, that I’ve actually heard and cared enough to listen to the yays and the nays.
“[This shirt] is set up so that every time I look in the window or look in the mirror, I’m reminded to turn hate into love. It’s everything I wish would happen on planet Earth.
“Look into your heart, because you may be a bastard from hell and you’ll find that spot in your heart that’s making you be mean to people.
“I don’t have any of the answers. And I do know that everybody who says that they have the answers is wrong.
“About 50 years ago, I was riding my bicycle across the one and only Narrows Bridge; it was a beautiful summer day. I stopped in the middle of the bridge just to look at the sky and the water and the sun was blinding. And all of the sudden, I felt some electricity in both feet, the whole experience took about forty five seconds, and that electricity came up my body, when all of the sudden, whatever the hell it was, that electric jolt got to my head. Everything was just so much brighter, it was almost blinding. All of the sudden, it was a realization and sureness in every part of my body that said, ‘It’s all right.’ It came back down, just as it came, and I went, ‘What the hell was that?’
“Every once in a while, or recently when things got so dark, and it looked like people’s hearts were going cold rather than getting warmer, I remember that the number of people on planet Earth that are good outnumbers the number of people that are bad. And I know it because that moment told me. And even the bad people are good sometimes.”