So, with the energy of everybody that was there I decided to keep pushing.

I kept pushing to 10 minutes. At 10 minutes you start getting all these really strong tingling sensations in your fingers and toes.

In a personal letter to Stouffer, Parsons wrote, I will fight for you against this evil with everything there is in me I am in it with you to the death.

I use spoken word to help my students rediscover wonder, to fight their instincts to be cool and unfazed and, instead, actively pursue being engaged with what goes on around them, so that they can reinterpret and create something from it.