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Retrieved, story added and reposted Jan 2026

What I can add 2.5 years after writing those sentences is that they’re still valid. Yet although I cannot name new social media or other digital sorcery that may now permeate your carefully created walls more than before;
I do think something has made our jobs harder.

But what, right?
The news, the wars, the mayhem?
A multitude of global threats closing in?

What is it, that has shifted so dramatically to our detriment that I’m pretty sure I’m right on this one, yet cannot name it?
Don’t know…

But walling off to concentrate on your creative work has become more difficult, and many would argue irresponsible.
This comes from the idea that art is always created in conversation with the world.
The art of walling off is also about choosing which parts of the world to let in.
And about which parts of your own story, or your own suffering, to share. In particular when they are tied to larger events, or to a broader audience.

And yet, devil’s advocate here, I always regretted it when I did. I totally understand the stance that artists are the most logical choice to interpret and make sense of our times.
Make records of it.
Yet when I did tie my work to my personal experiences, or to a particular hook on current events, it ultimately never aged well.

Not even when what I had made had helped people. It sounds so selfish to admit that the content was feeling meaningless despite knowing it had been of tremendous value.
Yet, maybe, this reveals the point.

That it’s not about whether your work is hailed or rejected. But to create simply, and only, what you are called to, on that particular day.
To never ever look back.

And to trust that the walls will hold.

~Suzanne Beenackers
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I have been consistently posting “What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today” for a while now.
Starting June 2023, they found their final form as blogposts here on the Catacombe blog, pretty quickly.

But I’ve always been aware there were singular posts/ borderline poetry, still on social media, floating somewhere down my timeline.

Some at the beginning when I did not know what this series would be.
Some around the time in October/November 2023, when I lost access to this site.
And then a few in between.

And in addition to that there are the ones I did post on the blog, but whose stories revolve around things I no longer offer.
I will retrieve those too;
And give them a new story, that has the timeless quality they deserve.

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