Honesty

From Freya’s mailbox this morning…

The construction of a world based on lies is a key component of authoritarians’ takeover of democratic societies. George Orwell’s 1984 explored a world in which those in power use language to replace reality, shaping the past and people’s daily experiences to cement their control. They are constantly reconstructing the past to justify their actions in the present. – Heather Cox Richardson

Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon, and stars. – Alan Watts

Change cannot come from an art that claims a purely “realist”perspective. Change comes from the imagination, unbounded by those parameters that inevitably create the disasters we are always facing. Humans – beings – are not one, two, even three dimensional. Dimensions, by definition, provide boundaries, pro and prescripted. We are the sun, moon, stars, forests, rivers, sky. It's only in our togetherness that we come to realize who and what we really are...

...if change is to happen, it will be because people with power have a better sense of what’s happening to people who have none. – Katherine Boo, investigative journalist, who's birthday was today in 1964.

"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!"

– Louise Bogan, poet, born this week in Maine (1897).

It has taken a long time for me to stop pissing on my own shoes. They are dry now, most of the time.