Sirnesto
@sirnesto
Believer in a bright future for humanity. Alarmed at current trajectories. Dad building the plane while flying it. PKM nerd.
Sirnesto
"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears." - Montaigne
The Obamas Strike Back — The Ezra Klein Show
overcast.fm“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
- James Baldwin
Fire
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
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youtube.com“I'm looking back at that happy man, myself, as he stands there-soaked in summer moonlight on that Thursday night in August.
He's happy because the scene is beautiful; and because he's in love; and because his novel is finished—he only just did the very last thing, correcting the galleys-and its first readers are excited by it. His life feels good.
... See moreThe 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
Turn your face up to the sky. Listen.
Katie Hawkins-Gaar • A Chance to Start Anew
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or... See more