Saints Don't Exist

I wrote about Jimi Hendrix here.  A good friend reminded me that Hendrix was a "flawed human being."  In my book, that's kind of a redundancy...  Hendrix is not remarkable because he was a perfect being, he is remarkable because he somehow rose up above his circumstances and created an amazing body of work, and re-thought what it meant to play an electric guitar.

I don't celebrate Hendrix because he was a "saint," saints don't exist in my conception of the universe. No he was a an amazing human being, a flawed human being navigating a flawed universe.  And still he created something extraordinary, beautiful and inspiring...