Sirnesto
@sirnesto
Believer in a bright future for humanity. Alarmed at current trajectories. Dad building the plane while flying it. PKM nerd.
Sirnesto
Trump Voters Want a Revolution. It’s Time for Progressives to Offer Their Own
George Monbiottheguardian.com“I have always been interested in writing about happiness, in large part because it's extremely difficult to do. The French writer Henry de Montherlant famously said, "Le bonheur écrit à l'encre blanche sur des pages blanches." Happiness writes in white ink on white pages. In other words, you can't make it appear on the page. It's invisible. It doe
... See more“ Happiness writes in white ink on white pages.“ - Henry de Montherlant
The world is burning, and there is no time to put down the water buckets. For just an hour, put down the water buckets anyway. Take your cue from the bluebirds, who have no faith in the future but who build the future nevertheless, leaf by leaf and straw by straw, shaping them into the roundness of the world.... See more
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Katie Hawkins-Gaar • A Chance to Start Anew
"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts”
- Marcus Aurelius
"Every moment, every circumstance, is another chance to experience things as they are, rather than as we wish or fear them to be." - Joan Sutherland
Despite Trump’s Win, School Vouchers Were Again Rejected by Majorities of Voters
Jeremy Schwartzpropublica.org
“… we can no longer afford to carry on in a prolonged era of polite reflection and ineffective resistance. An Era of Emergencies is bearing down on us." - Barry Lopez from embrace fearlessly the burning world
“Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, ages: it is the rule." - Friedrich Nietzsche
“The world is bursting with wonder, and yet it’s the rare productivity guru who seems to have considered the possibility that the ultimate point of all our frenetic doing might be to experience more of that wonder.” - Oliver Burkeman from Four Thousand Weeks