This is Brain Music: a selection of songs curated monthly by different members of the Rochester community that we hope will inspire you the same way it inspires its curator.
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My name is Chloé du Plessis. By day I work as an Art Director at The Father’s House Church. I spend my days with incredibly gifted creatives, setting direction for unique brands and initiatives. My days are filled with colors, typefaces and a lot of human beings. When I’m not there, I am a flower-loving, room-styling, theology-studying bookworm. (I started a book club, which I need to get on!)
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Does anyone else feel trapped when you give an account of the things you do? It never feels like it conveys entirely who you are. I love these words by Jerry Spinelli (in Stargirl). I think they explain me better than I can:
“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds, we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.” Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
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I am today and tomorrow. I am nostalgic and present. Some days I overkill one album until it’s ruined. Some days I only have the emotional capacity to listen to trashy music. Some days I just sit in silence. Most days, I’m listening to old hand-me-down Ella Fitzgerald CDs in my car (my aux input is broken).
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Fall is a very bittersweet season; it feels like I’m always saying goodbye to Summer before I’m ready. Yet within the complexity of that annual bitter goodbye, I get this warm feeling inside as I think about the things Fall brings. Fall reminds me that change is necessary and letting go is important. Plus, there is something ridiculously magical about earth-made confetti.
- Chloé du Plessis