
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” – Chinese proverb
Continue reading“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” – Chinese proverb
Continue reading“Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.” ― Alain de Botton
Continue reading“If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, and our shortcomings instead of pretending they don’t exist, then maybe we’ll leave the world a better place than we found it.” – Russell Wilson
Continue reading“Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Continue readingNo one can hear me scream.
Continue readingDesert sands of deception
flames of futility
growing in the wilderness
under an orange sky
baking us at record temps –
Our Planet is dying
screaming, crying
and she’s angry.
(Photo from Insider.com)
Note: This poem was a meditation on the wildfires happening in California right now. I haven’t read much about them, but I do know that much of it is being caused by the increasing damage of man-made climate change.
We’re living in dangerous times. Some people (like my girlfriend) seem to be able to cope with it better than me. For me, though, a lot of the things going on in the world have me feeling very on edge.
Continue readingWhen democracy died, I was reading Kafka –
gunshots blared + factions fought for ideals
they thought worth dying for –
TVs tuned to Washington +
the White House went dark,
troops marched + destroyed dissidents.
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