Maria's Boundless Optimism

Dear Friends & Neighbors,

I met Maria quite a while ago when I first moved to St. Louis. I’d been starting my career in music, and seeking out other local creative people in the community. In my searching, I found a community called Art Dimensions that had been founded by Davide Weaver and another fellow named Michael Landau. He would, years later, become the founding president of Phat Buddha Recording, a prime studio facility in St. Louis where many hit songs have been made.

One night, I was at a gallery meeting in a place called The Castle that Maria Chappelle-Nadal spoke at. I was stunned from the moment she started speaking by what she said, and how convincingly she said it. She represented a point of view that was identifiable by every person in the room, despite the room’s obvious and deep diversity. Without overtly preaching to the choir, Maria addressed the importance of education for children and other young people; especially arts and music education. She discussed the importance of the American music and art traditions, and how those are examples of positive American traditions, and how they should be reintroduced in public American schools as fundamental. She made me think of the school music program I was so lucky to have, flawed as it was, just because I might be one of the last people to have grown up with one.

Since meeting Maria, I have often run into her while out and about in St. Louis – particularly in University City. I've played so many shows in the Delmar Loop. Invariably, running into Maria led to her explaining to me with devastated disgust the shambled state of our public school systems. Simultaneously, with boundless optimism - she lays out a plan that not only could work; it actually makes sense. I’ve never endorsed a political candidate, because as much as I’ve wanted to believe in other politicians, I usually have more than a hunch causing me to believe that they’re not working in the ways of honesty or public interest. Maria is as true to her actions as her words. Maria shows up and speaks for a massive number of people in Missouri that would otherwise be voiceless - voices that should be heard and understood. She has other important items on her agenda besides education that are worth looking into, and it is extremely easy to get in direct contact with her. I’ll vote for Maria until it isn’t constitutional for her to be president for a third term.

John Maxfield

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