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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved. -- Marge Piercy, For the young who want to in The Moon Is Always Female. Take an ax to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now. -- Rumi, Quietness |
From page 1 of The Anything Journal: Hi there stranger! I am an anonymous donor of this notebook to the Phoenix Coffee/Coffee Phix coffee shop! What’s on your mind? Write it in this journal. This is meant to be an anonymous way to get your feelings out, write poetry, doodle, draw, write short stories. You [...]
Driving between students yesterday I pulled up behiund a white van with this bumper sticker. I don’t think I’ve ever had such a visceral response in my life. If I had had a bumper sticker with an arrow that said “Racist Bigot On Board” I would have chased down the van and pasted my opinion [...]
People are naturally terrified when the economy is not growing. Technical change becomes the great evil, and gives people something concrete to blame for their economic woes. It also provides a handy scare tactic for those want to squeeze wages and workers, and a cover for politicians who push austerity policies and object to government [...]
From Ralph Solonitz, of course… Note: Ralph originally sent me this art on 22 December.
From Ralph Solonitz, of course… (Ralph originally sent me this on 21 December.)
From Ralph Solonitz, of course… Note: Ralph originally sent me this art on 17 December, after I began my most recent retreat, and I am posting this, and one other visual commentary on the murders at Sandy Hook Elementary today. I am still working on my own full response, but in a sentence, I would [...]
You never know what you’ll find in mom’s basement…
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