September 2011
16 posts
“Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we...”
– ~Felix Cohen
Love Song
by William Carlos Williams
I lie here thinking of you:—
the stain of love
is upon the world!
Yellow, yellow, yellow
it eats into the leaves,
smears with saffron
the horned branches that lean
heavily
against a smooth purple sky!
There is no light
only a honey-thick stain
that drips from leaf to leaf
and limb to limb
spoiling the colors
of the whole world—
you far off...
Playing By The Rules
Vermont has always been considered the “outlaw” state, in part because the mountains and dark hollows are hard to navigate and easily swallow up bank robbers, revolutionaries, and worse. In fact, Daniel Shays, the Massachusetts farmer who turned against the government due to a fight about property taxes, brought his followers up to a mountaintop a half day’s walk from our farm. This ragged group...
“Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs...”
– ~Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
9.20.11
Are you doing what you want to do or what you think you should be doing? Why aren’t they the same? Can you fix that?
I believe, more times than not, we should want to do what we should be doing and instead we tend to want to do what our wishes dictate and end up not doing anything.
There’s a time for dreaming about what could be and a time for doing what we can. Perhaps...
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. ~A.A. Milne
9.16.11
As your faith is strengthened you will find
that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control,
that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow
with them, to your great delight and benefit.
~Emmanuel Teney
…something every political candidate should take note of:
The more you try to control people (through legislation) the less control you have. To use a metaphor...
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9.14.11
I need to write.
Perhaps you’ve said something similar to yourself, something that you should be doing because it’s in you to do but for any number of reasons you are not doing that thing. Call it resistance. Call it procrastination. Call it an obstacle; weakness; whatever.
Sometimes I find myself daydreaming about the possibilities of other pursuits. I see what someone else has...
“A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They’re...”
– ~Maude, from Harold and Maude written by Colin Higgins
What really hurts women →
Via: betterbeawesome:
Pardon me, I’m about to trip into the deep end here. What hurts women in national security isn’t other women expressing—or not expressing—their sexuality. What hurts women is an entrenched belief—like the one expressed by Dana Perino in Spencer’s post—that men inherently know more about…
The Kid Should See This →
…not just your kid, but the kid in you too. Some really cool stuff over there. Go look.
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“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love...”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via wordpainting)
“People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation and their age,...”
– Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet, “Progress of the Human Spirit” (1795)