Thursday July 28, 2022; 10:57 PM EDT
- We are asked to be docile, subservient, to echo the lies, to speak no truth, to look away when people are treated to indignity, to accept custom rather than to create, to eat less well than the earth provides, to live in noise and detritus, to work long hours with less satisfaction, and so forth and so forth.#
- But when we control our own time, we begin to relax and listen to ourselves and our trusted circle of people, we take small chances to create, we play with possibility, we cook or build something less easy because there is a reward for doing so, we don't measure only in hours and dollars, we dream of a neighborhood where young people would feel free as they grew up. We have this cluster of healthy impulses--I think most people can attest to this, even if they have often been denied the chance to be the person they would like to be.#