Raizel
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Raizel
faith has very little to do with belief and much to do with actual bodies. Faith is a shape, not a substance that fills that container. The substance of belief comes later. First the empty bowl must be offered again and again. The body must kneel in order to feel itself lower than the mountains, the trees, the birds. Can you be utterly hopeless but... See more
-Sophie Strand, Make Me Good Soil
we have to shed the capitalist propaganda that tells us people are naturally greedy, and that without police keeping us in our places we would all hoard and harm.
Dean Spade • Mutual Aid
a writer is a writer, no matter what sort of work she’s doing, as long as she is thinking, still, like a writer: observing and mentally composing and watching the world with curiosity. Writing is a lovely, life-affirming thing to do, even if the world never rewards us for it, or never rewards us enough to allow us to make it the main thing in our... See more
George Saunders • Art vs. Commerce
As writers we live in a strange tension where what we experience is always double-experienced. First, of course, by our human heart. Second, by our poet heart, a far more mysterious cataloguer & cherisher of events. Where the human heart wants to step away from a painful, blistering event, the poet heart steps forward & says, "I see, I'll say, I... See more
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-Shira Erlichman
to seduce people into falling in love with the world around them
Georgina Reid • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care - Wonderground
To be a gardener is to give a fuck. To be a gardener is to be invested in a place—to know it, to protect it, to be present to it. How can we protect and heal ourselves and our planet if we’re not willing to step into, and value, the role of the gardener?