Sirnesto

@sirnesto

Believer in a bright future for humanity. Alarmed at current trajectories. Dad building the plane while flying it. PKM nerd.

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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.

Turn your face up to the sky. Listen.

Katie Hawkins-Gaar • A Chance to Start Anew

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell from 1984

“You can do it like it’s a great weight, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.”

– Ram Dass

Tina Roth Eisenberg • Part of The Dance

“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

“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

— T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)

Philosophy of PKM

“Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense.” Marcus Aurelius

The RNC is launching a massive effort to monitor voting. Critics say it threatens to undermine trust

ALI SWENSON apnews.com

"Festina lente - Make haste, slowly"- Greek and Latin proverb, adopted by Augustus and commonly attributed to him.

Philosophy of PKM

“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