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Concept: weaponized incompetence
One by Mary Oliver The mosquito is so small it takes almost nothing to ruin it. Each leaf, the same. And the black ant, hurrying. So many lives, so many fortunes! Every morning, I walk softly and with forward glances down to the ponds and through the pinewoods. Mushrooms, even, have but a brief hour before the slug creeps to the feast, before the p
... See more🎶Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in 🎶 ~ Leonard Cohen, Anthem
James Clear - Summation
Deconstruct system
Consistency
Small habit
Collection of behaviors
Each habit like a little gear
Goes forever
Don’t skip more than a day
Reclaim quickly
What can I do on my worst day
The person you see yourself as
Type of person you want to become
Small habits to pursue that identity
Build up evidence - powerful
Return to powerful identit
... See moreThe first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. ~M
... See morePray for Peace by Ellen Bass
Pray to whomever you kneel down to: Jesus nailed to his wooden or marble or plastic cross, his suffering face bent to kiss you,
Buddha still under the Bo tree in scorching heat,
Yahweh, Allah, raise your arms to Mary that she may lay her palm on our brows,
to Shekinhah, Queen of Heaven and Earth, to Inanna in her stripp
... See more"When I was young, I was attracted to sorrow. It seemed interesting. It seemed an energy that would take me somewhere. Now I am older, if not old, and I hate sorrow. I see that it has no energy of its own, but uses mine, furtively. I see that it is leaden, without breath, and repetitious, and unsolvable.
And now I see that I am sorrowful about only
... See moreEverything that was broken has
forgotten its brokenness. I live
now in a sky-house, through every
window the sun. Also your presence.
Our touching, our stories. Earthy
and holy both. How can this be, but
it is. Every day has something in
it whose name is forever.
Mary Oliver
“During that heady and confusing time in the ’80s, the great French film director Claude Chabrol said to me, “My dear boy, the truth today is not the truth tomorrow.” For so long I didn’t understand what he meant, but perhaps now I do. “
Lord of the Rings You can trust us to stick with you through thick and thin — to the bitter end. And you can trust us to keep any secret of yours — closer than you keep it yourself. But you cannot trust us to let you face trouble alone, and go off without a word. We are your friends, Frodo.” ~ Merry