A song for you A song for me Is how we relate our life to be
I worked on Mauna Kea for over five years and saw my health severely degrade during that time. The two long term summit workers that I knew well died of disease conditions, another worker went on to commit suicide, and others were argumentative.
A new heart for a New Year, always!
When we are aware that we are eternal beings, when we become enlightened to the fact that our life is something eternal that cannot be harmed by anything, then we have no attachments to the past of anxiety about the future and are able to focus on th...
Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.
I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.
And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people.
And if you ever - and I do mean ever - try to leave me, I’m goin’ with you.
The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.
Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.
Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer's model of the world.
Never lend if you need repayment; never give where you want a return.
. . . and meanwhile take my assurance that the clouds are lifting and that I have every hope that the light of truth is breaking through
Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.
Automatically, like all healthy, normal beings, I deny the existence of horror...
I know how you feel about me. I feel the same way. You never have to worry that you don't tell me enough, okay?" There he went again, being all perceptive to the point of being creepy psychic mind reader guy. "You're creepy psychic mind reader guy." ...
But for most of the world- for most of Vermont- the Cape Abenaki meltdown is just another bit of old news. Tsunamis. School shootings. Syria. We watch it, we read about it, and then we move on. As a species, we're either very resilient or super callo...
Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.
I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.
Ack!" I said. Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.
If I was on the road to Hell, at least I was going in style.
