- In daily blog posts, Greg Mitchell recounts the final weeks and days of thought and action leading to the two atomic bombings of Japan, including the morally dubious political games being played in Washington. #
- Silence is the basic mode of a citizen, largely unallied with others, having no regular civic audience, skilled in no form of public address, possessing no reliable stream of information or one so contested and poisoned and vexed as to be more problem than aid, susceptible to cynicism or despair or indifference or fear every moment that is not spent laboring or consuming entertainment or tending the beautiful or bare walled garden of the private life. #
- Stephen Kuusisto distinguishes between stories told about oneself and stories told about a group: "My own take is that creative writing culture is essentially without sincerity. It's a 'me first' podium from which singular stories of abjection and resilience are emoted but without any awareness of class warfare."#
- Kuusisto also shares a far-reaching theory from Giles Deleuze: “We will never find the sense of something (of a human, a biological or even a physical phenomenon) if we do not know the force which appropriates the thing, which exploits it, which takes possession of it or is expressed in it.” (In Nietzsche and Philosophy.)#
- Taken together, these two passages urge us to see our lives not just as solo efforts or private lives but also as expressions of the broad patterns of our society that are given as benefits or barriers by the unfolding of history.#
- If this is so, then improving our lives is both a solo effort and a matter of class struggle. A matter of cultivation of oneself and a matter of organizing a community, both.#
- Steve also wrote Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey, a beautiful book about learning how to live again, with and thanks to Corky, his first guide dog. #
- Too much writing about rural life is done by a person standing on the far side of a five bar gate, said someone like Orwell. The principle applies widely.#
- Some beautiful things are so simple that we're foolish not to try.#
- In daily blog posts, Greg Mitchell recounts the final weeks and days of thought and action leading to the two atomic bombings of Japan, including the morally dubious political games being played in Washington. #
- Silence is the basic mode of a citizen, largely unallied with others, having no regular civic audience, skilled in no form of public address, possessing no reliable stream of information or one so contested and poisoned and vexed as to be more problem than aid, susceptible to cynicism or despair or indifference or fear every moment that is not spent laboring or consuming entertainment or tending the beautiful or bare walled garden of the private life. #
- Stephen Kuusisto distinguishes between stories told about oneself and stories told about a group: "My own take is that creative writing culture is essentially without sincerity. It's a 'me first' podium from which singular stories of abjection and resilience are emoted but without any awareness of class warfare."#
- Kuusisto also shares a far-reaching theory from Giles Deleuze: “We will never find the sense of something (of a human, a biological or even a physical phenomenon) if we do not know the force which appropriates the thing, which exploits it, which takes possession of it or is expressed in it.” (In Nietzsche and Philosophy.)#
- Taken together, these two passages urge us to see our lives not just as solo efforts or private lives but also as expressions of the broad patterns of our society that are given as benefits or barriers by the unfolding of history.#
- If this is so, then improving our lives is both a solo effort and a matter of class struggle. A matter of cultivation of oneself and a matter of organizing a community, both.#
- Steve also wrote Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey, a beautiful book about learning how to live again, with and thanks to Corky, his first guide dog. #
- Too much writing about rural life is done by a person standing on the far side of a five bar gate, said someone like Orwell. The principle applies widely.#
- Some beautiful things are so simple that we're foolish not to try.#