What’s a potlatch? thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/p...

Reading Georges Bataille “humans can reciprocate the original gift of solar energy if they enter into a potlatch with the sun from which they can emerge only as losers. In his concept of the “general economy,” Bataille asserts that an infinite surplus is the fundamental problem of human existence.”

As a Beal kid I really idolized Greg Curnoe and Bill, and all the amazing art they contributed to London. So sad. Going to put on some Spasm Band and go for a bike ride later.

A heart stained in anger grows weak and grows bitter, you become your own prisoner as you watch yourself sit there wrapped up in a trap of your very own chain of sorrow.
- Bruised Orange'

Cars eating whole pie and everyone else fighting for crumbs!

The widening study alone is going to $1M, and we already studied it in 2021, and found it was a bad idea with negative consequences.

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"The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped."

Hubert Humphrey

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One of my favourite books. That passage always comes to mind when I’m doing something that hurts, but I know is rewarding.

“And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world”

Paul Harding, Tinkers

I’d pick this one!