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We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier to envision tha
"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do." Voltaire
“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” - George Orwell
‘From my first meetings with World Weary Woman, it was clear that she could work. She could analyze, psychologize. But she had not learned how to play
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,We, the people, must redeemThe land, the mines, the pl
Too Late The Truth Haki R. Madhubuti who quieted the fourth estate, took words, images, and liberating ideas from the recently comatosed and stole
The End and the Beginning By Wisława Szymborska After every war someone has to clean up. Things won’t straighten themselves up, after all. Someone has
The dearth of optimistic visions of the future, at least in the United States, is central to the psychic atmosphere of this bleak era. Pessimism is ev
The trick is to repackage your motivation to change your perspective, making the process of achieving your goals as important as the result, thus help
Finding meaning in something random was described by researchers as an important factor in the formation of paranormal and delusional beliefs, and has
We are building something immense together that, though invisible and immaterial, is a structure, one we reside within—or, rather, many overlapping st
Learning to write comes from reading, both the work of published writers and of our peers, and from using one’s powers of insight and creativity to an
how was it possible to catch up with leisured women, who had been reading steadily from childhood?
How to Be a Writer: 10 Tips From Rebecca Solnit
1) Write. There is no substitute. Write what you most passionately want to write, not blogs, posts, tweets or all the disposable bubblewrap in which m
It is a story difficult to put into words, this. I never tell it, in fact, or never have before. I told no one at the time, not my friends, not my fam
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
I took a medium-sized bottle of Jim Beam and drank from it under the covers while reading No Man Is an Island by Thomas Merton. Without God, we are no
“Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undisc