Sirnesto
@sirnesto
Believer in a bright future for humanity. Alarmed at current trajectories. Dad building the plane while flying it. PKM nerd.
Sirnesto
“Hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency." - Rebecca Solnit
None of the conventional explanations for Trump’s victory stand up to scrutiny | Ben Davis
Ben Davistheguardian.com
The problem for Democrats is that any observation of this second truth—a truth that seems likely to darken and expand in the aftermath of yesterday’s attack—will now be condemned as rancorous and immoral—or worse, as an incitement to further political violence. Every necessary criticism of Trump’s authoritarianism, fondness for dictators, fraudulen... See more
Sam Harris • Stepping Back From the Precipice
PULL THE THORNS FROM YOUR heart. Then you will see the rose gardens within you,” wrote Rumi,
Sharon Salzberg • Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
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youtube.com“Douglas firs, cedars, hemlocks, and big-leaf maples surround the house so tightly they take away the horizon. Some-times, when their crowns sway in the wind, I have the sense that I'm living at the bottom of a kelp forest. The expanse of this montane forest, like the expanse of the Pacific Ocean, is something I feel, and against this volume of spa
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Remember what you must do when they undervalue you, when they think
your softness is your weakness, when they treat your kindness like it is their advantage.
You awaken every dragon, every wolf, every monster
that sleeps inside you and you remind them what hell looks like when it wears the skin of a gentle human.
Nikita Gill, Wild Embers: Poems of
... See more“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.” - Leonardo da Vinci