Thu
Aug
30
“ I had no idea where to look, or what I was looking for, but I know now that all the important journeys start that way.
Jeanette Winterson’s Lighthousekeeping
Wed
Aug
29
“ There are many things you can do on this earth. Choose some.
SMB
Tue
Aug
14
“ The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can only be preserved by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
Henry David Thoreau
“ ‘You have the variables and you have the invariables, and you want to use them all, but you work around the invariables’…. An invariable. No word had ever sounded to me more like love.
How Should a Person Be (Sheila Heti)
“ I knew the value of what was in that sack. I would carry that sack and never put it down. I would carry it to the end.
Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be
“ …Such a person inevitably looks back on life as it nears its end with a feeling of emptiness and sadness, aware of what they have built: nothing. In their quest for life without failure, suffering, or doubt, that is what they achieve: a life empty of all those things that make a human life meaningful.
How Should a Person Be —Sheila Heti
Mon
May
21
“ Young progressives committed to social justice…did not want to do the hard work of changing and reorganizing our existing system in ways that would affirm the values of peace and love, or democracy and justice.
bell hooks “All About Love”
“ Friends are cool, too, you know. But there’s usually only one person who can make you not feel alone.
Kurt Vile (interview before doing acoustic version of “Baby’s Arms”)
