Peace is in solitude and books
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In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing
About the dark times.
-- Bertolt Brecht (tr. John Willett)
“character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
—Joan Didion
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My prediction is that neocons will blame the paleocons and the paleocons will blame the neocons.
But the real story is that a sophisticated foreign demoralization campaign led by the likes of Jack Poso, Bannon, Dugin, Candace, and Tucker viciously cracked up the only coalition that has been preventing total electoral collapse for decades: conservative Evangelicals.
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Well, tomorrow is the day for midterm elections.
Vote like your country, as well as your friends and your family and your children, all depend it -- because it really does!
“life only becomes happiness, is only endowed with freedom and meaning when someone exists as a whole world that has never been repeated in all eternity.”
—Vassily Grossman
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25% of the world are Muslim
0.2% are Jews.
At least 50 countries are Islamic, by coercion or force, where women’s rights are on the floor.
There is one Jewish state.
You do the maths.
“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche
And since I am dead,
I can take off my head
to recite Shakespearean quotations.
No animal or man
Can scream like I can
With the fury of my ree-cii-ta-tions.
—Jack, Nightmare Before Christmas 🎃
HAPPY FRIENDSHIP FRIDAY
How can I find the shining word,
the glowing phrase that tells all that
your love has meant to me,
all that your friendship spells?
--Grace Noll Crowell
Thanks to Captain Picard's excellent diction, I learned quite a bit of English from binge watching Star Trek TNG. Jean Luc Picard also became my first teen crush.
May your memory be a blessing, Patrick Stewart.
“It is unlikely that America's experiment in democracy will succeed if humanity's experiment in civility doesn't.”
—Robert Brault
art Norman Rockwell
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I’m releasing a new chapbook of new poems in time for the holidays! Stay tuned.
Here’s the front cover.
“There's nothing like someone saying, ‘You know better than that’ to make you wonder what you ever did to make them think so.”
—Robert Brault
HAPPY FRIENDSHIP FRIDAY
When weary with the long day's care,
And earthly change from pain to pain,
And lost, and ready to despair,
Thy kind voice calls me back again,
Oh, my true friend! I am not lone,
While thou canst speak with such a tone!
—Emily Brontë
