Matt Ruppert

Here’s another photo I think needs to stand alone. During “The Ghost of Tom Joad”, when @tommorello and @springsteen traded or dueled solos, they kept edging closer to each other with smiles on their faces. This isn’t a *perfect* photo, but I think it’s pretty close. Their shared joy is infectious and I think this might have been my favorite moment to photograph.

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And what a gift to live in this world and time. It might be broken, but it’s fixable. Too often, I think we try to hold joy as though it were an object, a possession, a nounable thing. But no; joy is porous. It leaks into and through us, and we become more porous the more of it we experience. To live vicariously rightly, as art permits us to do, is to admit that life multiplies when we let another’s passion filter through us.

To share in righteous passion is the only way forward.

#brucespringsteen #springsteen #tommorello #powertothepeople