April 2012
18 posts
“The civility we need will not come from watching our tongues. It will come from...”
– Parker Palmer, Healing the Heart of Democracy, p. 16 (via revnaomiking)
“Perhaps the United States may draw back when faced with the declared will of the...”
– Frantz Fanon: The Wretched of the Earth. Concerning Violence. p. 97 (via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity)
What are we waiting for? (via occupyla)
blog! byalicelee.com: Wallpaper - "Don't Ignore... →
byalicelee:
This past weekend I was inspired by a quote from PG’s latest essay, /todo.html. So my friend Dan suggested that I make a desktop wallpaper of it with the quote custom illustrated in some way. The passage itself goes:
I would like to avoid making these mistakes. But how do you…
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. but it...”
– David Orr (via hookahsmoke)
Watchhumanformat:
theamericanbear:
Tavis Smiley & Cornel West on “The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto”
CORNEL WEST: I mean, to put it in the history of America, that we began after we mistreated our precious indigenous brothers and sisters, subordinated them, genocidal attack. But we had to deal with monarchy, British imperialism. Overthrew the monarchy. Next came slavery. Had to...
#poem The Bottomless Basket
revdocdavid:
Look among the trees
Look among the streams
Look among the memories
That flow—what grows
By diminishing another
Does not grow
There is emptiness
At the source of words
Let’s gather there
Joining the words
In endless change
Let’s be the voice
Not the echo
These are the gifts
At the empty source
“Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed in remedies of low spirits, are like...”
– Benjamin Rush (Universalist, physician, member of American Constitutional Convention 1787)
#poem Human Doing / Human Being
revdocdavid:
No meanings
Or too many
Thrown against
The wall like
Spaghetti—ah
Al dente for this
While, mush in
Five minutes
1. Boil gently
2. Pitch definitions
3. Enjoy a savory
Being
