Regarding the upcoming weekend

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This Saturday and Sunday, and perhaps again on Monday, depending on interest, I have engaged someone to visit the school and speak with those of you who remain in distress regarding recent events. His name is Dr. Leonard Samson, and he is a colleague and personal friend of several years' standing, a psychiatric specialist in childhood and young adult trauma at the top of his field. I encourage all of you to consider meeting with him, and will be approaching private those of you who would, I think, particularly benefit from his insight, but the choice is yours.

In the interest of privacy, those who wish to meet with Dr. Samson should please come and speak with me to schedule an appointment; also, if after the weekend any of you decide you would like to meet with him on a continuing basis, he has agreed to take you on, and arrangements will be made through the school for his retainer.

Dr. Samson is a gifted therapist and one of the finest men it has been my pleasure to know, and I hope you will take advantage of this unique opportunity; if, however, you decide you would rather not unburden yourself to a stranger, I urge you to speak with either myself or Dr. MacTaggart. The well-being of the students at this school is our most important concern, especially after a year such as we have had.

Of course, once I post...

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I have been called away from the school. I should be back within a week.

Questions will be answered upon my return. My apologies for the delay, but it is unavoidable.

I have an offer to make you...

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It's our decisions that make us who we are. But sometimes, the range of our decisions... grow limited. Just sometimes.

But.

Some of you have expressed an interest in communication. In reaching out to people via means of mass media. In peaceful activism. In learning how to talk with society to enact changes that might mean a peaceful - or perhaps just a little bit safer - world for future generations. Be they mutants, or not. Because this will affect, make no mistake, everyone, regardless of gender, skin color, age, nationality... or genetic differences.

I cannot be your spokesperson. And trust me, if I could have, I would have offered on the spot - but it would have not been doing you a favor. Not in the least. So I'll try and do what I can instead, and what will serve you far better, for all intents and purposes. I can choose to help you achieve what you want to do. Share with you what I learned, what I know, what I could do were it safe for me and others around me to do so.

I know the entertainment industry inside out. I know how the people in that field think, what they like, what they don't like, what they believe in or don't believe in. I know what they want to hear, and the kind of people they want to promote. I know how to make them want to promote people they don't think they want to promote.

I made it as a singer, and I didn't do it halfway.

And as such, I can offer you everything I learned in the process of forging my career. There are still people who talk to me in the industry, all of them damn fine human beings, and all of them damn good at what they do. They are from every kind of work field you can find there. And I can put you in contact with them. I can show you who to talk to. I can show you how to talk to them. I can show you how to figure out all these things on your own, and not need my help to make it.

I can also, if there are students interested, and I think they are, work on a class about just that. Or hold seminars on the topics you want to see. Introduction to Movie Making 101. Introduction to Schmoozing 101. Introduction to Not Putting Your Foot In Your Mouth 101. If it was part of making a career as a singer, I can teach it to you - and how to apply it to anything else that's related. Ask me to teach you something about what I know best.

I want to show it to you.

What say you?