Every organism has "a fungal component that is sustaining them" . . . . They are "the firmament of life on earth." The "basal organisms" that provide the "possibility for plants and animals to live."

At Tara today in this fateful hour

I place all Heaven with its power,

And the sun with its brightness,

And the snow with its whiteness,


And fire with all the strength it hath,


And lightning with its rapid wrath,

And the winds with their swiftness along their path,


And the sea with its deepness,


And the rocks with their steepness,


And the earth with its

Brueggemann: “[E]very totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep on conjuring and proposing futures alternative to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.”

As unnecessary as a well is

To a village on the banks of a river,

So unnecessary are all scriptures

To someone who has seen the truth

• Bhagavad Gita

“Ne pas faire plasir a son ego et faire plasir a la formule.” From THE PERFECT SCENT (Don’t please your ego, please the formula.)

“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”

-Orson Welles

Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself—without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat. — Bhagavad Gita

“If you chase two rabbits, you will catch neither.”

Russian Proverb

Be so absorbed in the work that you neither see nor hear your enemy.

Joy Williams