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There is no boredom, only fear. We are condemned to be free.

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What if Evil is just lazy Good?

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Dire criminals captivate us within the context of the arts by dint of the narcissistic rigor with which they keep at bay anything tending to diminish their ego.

Freud, 1914

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David Joy

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My mother was the daughter of subsistence farmers in Eastern Kentucky. My grandfather chose to raise his family by the old ways because he’d watched the damage done to his brothers when they went to work for industry, for the money economy. Thinking about my grandparents has me wondering about the different kinds of work and the different kinds of wealth. ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.’ These days I’m asking myself—what is my heaven? Is it Target? Is it a tenure track job? What is it that I pursue with my thoughts and actions, with every muscle of my life? And, my god, is that really it? These days I’m thinking it’s never too late to choose the economy of better sense.

Rebecca Gayle Howell

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MY MOTHER TOLD US NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN

She’d say, Never have a child you don’t want.

Then she’d say, Of course, I wanted you

once you were here. She’s not cruel. Just practical.

Like a kitchen knife. Still, the blade. And care.

When she washed my hair, it hurt; her nails

rooting my thick curls, the water rushing hard.

It felt like drowning, her tenderness.

As a girl, she’d been the last

of ten to take a bath, which meant she sat

in dirty water alone; her mother in the yard

bloodletting a chicken; her brothers and sisters

crickets eating the back forty, gone.

Is gentleness a resource of the privileged?

In this respect, my people were poor.

We fought to eat and fought each other because

we were tired from fighting. We had no time

to share. Instead our estate was honesty,

which is not tenderness. In that it is

a kind of drowning. But also a kind of air.

—Rebecca Gayle Howel, from Rattle #42, Winter 2013

2013 Readers’ Choice Award Winner

2014 Pushcart Prize Winner

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“To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.”

— Jean Vanier

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There are always problems to face, but it makes a difference if our minds are calm. On the surface we may get upset, but it makes a difference if we are able to stay calm in the depths of our minds.

Dalai Lama

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http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-get-people-to-like-you-2014-10

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http://danielcoyle.com/2018/01/26/four-parenting-tips-learned-hanging-worlds-best-leaders/

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We forget that Nature itself is one vast miracle transcending the reality of night and nothingness. We forget that each one of us in his personal life repeats that miracle.

Loren Eiseley

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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“Never look back, walk tall, act fine.”

David Bowie. 

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In the depths of winter I finally learned within me there lay an invincible summer

Albert Camus

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http://www.glamour.com/story/glamour-exclusive-president-barack-obama-says-this-is-what-a-feminist-looks-like

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Sometimes the poison is the cure.

Kyle Morton (Typhoon)