The Bodega at the End of the Internet

large technology monopolies such as Google need to be broken up and regulated, because their consolidated power and cultural influence make competition largely impossible. This monopoly in the information sector is a threat to democracy,

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within, and it is available to you now.

“Next, the Takers systematically destroy their competitors’ food to make room for their own. Nothing like this occurs in the natural community. The rule there is: Take what you need, and leave the rest alone.”

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

When I remove the extraneous, it gives me a chance to savor what’s left. The flavors can really shine.

And my experience of this is that life is really revealed when I have less in front of me.

“We are what we do repeatedly.”

ARISTOTLE

I’m still afraid

of butterflies

how they move so much

like a heart

on fire

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

America will never complete the work of reconstruction—will never even get close to being a more perfect union—until we are honest about her past and the politics of rejection.