Anna B
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Anna B
Mindfulness is not about achieving or gaining, it’s about acceptance and the relinquishing of material desire. When you’re charging $10 a month with the promise of a ‘better life’, can you really be holding true to that compassionate and egalitarian vision?
Chris Wheatley • When Mindfulness Meets Capitalism, It Loses Its Way
Before the 20th century, reflection on truth in Western intellectual and spiritual traditions usually exalted it. ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty
Crispin Sartwell • Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
Woolf herself was ambivalent about “On Being Ill,” and about its opening sentence.
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
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 than the impending changes in everyday roles, thoughts, practices that not even the wildest science fiction anticipated. Perhaps we should not have adjusted to it so easily. It would be better if we were
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
When, in the 1970s, the Sex Pistols sang “There is no future,” there was at least a confrontational relish to it. Now there’s just dread.
Michelle Goldberg • The Darkness Where the Future Should Be
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!
Langston Hughes • Let America Be America Again
https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again
This poem kept me going during the insanity of the Trump years.
Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books suggests a much larger deficiency of character.