"So what do you do first, Boy? Make a plan. Get moving. Get to work. Do something. Make a decision. If you don't, circumstances will decide for you. The enemy loves to tell you what to do." - From 'The Savage Boy': volume 2 of 'The Wasteland Saga' by Nick Cole.
#lifelessons #literature #philosophy

"The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they’re given wings." -- Jelalhuddin Rumi: 13th century Sufi mystic and poet.
#poetry #philosophy #lifeLessons #mysticism #literature

“And the point is to live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday, in the far future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live your way into the answer.” -- Rainer Maria.

#poetry #lifelessons #philosophy

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Trump supporters chose the monster. Now we're all stuck with him. And this will not go well for any of us, including them...

#politics #currentevents #presidentialtransition #enemywithin #threattodemocracy

"How can I clearly see what's wrong with someone else, and then look at myself as though I'm standing in front of a fogged mirror?" -- Jarod Kintz.

When my life is perfect, THEN I'll tell others how to live...

#lifelessons #selfhonesty #philosophy #compassion

Elie Wiesel was a recognized moral and ethical voice of the 20th century. We need his wisdom now, perhaps more so than ever. #humanrights #politics #immigration #equality #racism #xenophobia

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We've been dealing with Donald Trump on the political scene for roughly a decade now. From everything I've heard, I imagine this is in some way what it’s like to be in an abusive relationship. Except Trump doesn’t swear, “I won’t do it again.” Instead he abuses you over and over again. #politics

"When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me lay an invincible summer." -- Albert Camus...

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The bad jokes continue to write themselves.

Under Trump, this nation will be viewed by the rest of the world as the equivalent of a toddler running with a pair of scissors in one hand and a nuclear bomb in the other. A dangerous laughingstock stumbling across the world stage.

Georgia O'Keefe's home - Abiquiú, New Mexico

"Whenever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must, at that moment, become the center of the universe." - Elie Wiesel

..and..

"Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak for them as has no voices." - Terry Pratchett