Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
TO THE YOUNG WHO WANT TO DIE Sit down. Inhale. Exhale. The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the small seductive vial will wait will wait: will wait a week: will wait through April. You do not have to die this certain day. Death will abide, will pamper your postponement. I assure you death will wait. Death has a lot of time. Death can attend to you tomorrow. Or next week. Death is just down the street; is most obliging neighbor; can meet you any moment. You need not die today. Stay here - through pout or pain or peskyness. Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow. Graves grow no green that you can use. Remember, green's your color. You are Spring.
On the days I am about to give up, this Gwendolyn Brooks poem gives me an anchor.
curiosity is chaos
without the fear
~ Tony Vigorito
For the record:
the economy was doing just fine twelve days ago
“.… Articulating the inscape of the windhover is not capturing a ‘takeaway’ message. It is articulating the way the rhythm of that being resonates in us.”
~ Charles Taylor
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
where there is no hope
we must invent hope
~ Camus
and light,
more new light,
always arrives
~ Spencer Reece
Nowhere the lee side.
Everywhere risk.
As it was. As it is.
~ Tranströmer
God can’t getcha if you’re singin’ a song
In a time of destruction, create something.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
Wrong solitude vinegars the soul
Right solitude oils it
~ Jane Hershfield
The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s
Grief ain’t no song
~ Mahogany L Browne
Our return is different from our setting out
~Tu Fu
Art is to console those who are broken by life
~ VV Gogh
You’ll never be complete
And that’s as it should be
~Tomas Transtromer
I stop somewhere
waiting for you
~ Walt Whitman
Write. Sing. Rest.
Eat cherries…
~ Ann Lamott
I learn that the phrase
“still small voice” (KJV)
is translated from the Hebrew by a modern translator as
“a sound of sheer silence”
~ NT Wright, Paul
“… look we are parasocial friends,
So you parasocial know where I’m coming from”
~ Finneas (musician)
* lets
“… and no one let’s go of anyone’s hand”
~ Chris Hayes sign off one night
As writers
as revolutionaries
tell the truth. Your truth.
~ Dorothy Allison
The string is more important than the grateful bead
~ Steve Turtell
In a dark time
the eye
begins to see
~ Roethke
