"The novelists William Styron and George Orwell, and the social philosopher Hannah Arendt, in writing of totalitarian evil and the Nazi systematic murders in particular, have each come to the conclusion that evil is not what one expects: cruelty, moral perversion, power abuse, terror.  These are its instruments or its results.  But the deepest evil ( Read more... )

"Poets walk with webbed feet when it rains and talk with the frogs."
  --Walter Anderson, long the resident crazy artist of southern Mississippi, Ocean Springs

with a wink at ( Read more... )

“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how it compares with ( Read more... )

"Když je člověk sám, rodí se myšlenka.
Když jsou lidé po dvou, rodí se cit.
Když jsou lidé po třech, rodí se vtip."
   --Karel Čapek  (1890-1938)

"Where there is one person, thought is born.
When there are two people, feeling is born.
When there are three people, humor is born."
   --Karel Čapek

This thought has for several years stirred so much in me, ( Read more... )

I'm trying to find a big enough surfboard of awareness to ride the energetic wave that Mars (-Venus) opposition my Venus (-Moon-Pluto) has been jolting me with for the last couple of days, and surely for the next few ahead. *whew* *hot*hot*hot* Every time I get "like this," my first instinct is to direct the energy into poetry, into writing, into ( Read more... )

"Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends."
  --Joseph Campbell

It's funny....I've always thought it my bias as a writer to conceptualize and experience life as a bizarre narrative which is so ( Read more... )

I'm that weirdo who walks down the street, stopping to not only smell your rose bushes, but also talk to them.  So many flowers are in poor shape, past their prime, dying off while the new growth encouraged by more attentive gardeners begins to burgeon.

Hummingbirds fighting, finches singing, the sun is shining, and I take in the whole scene on my ( Read more... )

"Reality is the ultimate illusion."
  --Mal Hancock

Another day of being Alive. Truly Alive. Eyes as wide open as possible.

Taking it all in.

The Shit. And The Beauty. The Beautiful Shit, too. (Yes.  As Chris Wyant says, "Enlightenment comes when your third eye is at one with your turd eye and you can face all of your own shit".   thanks, Michelle ;-)

And to be able to face that Shit as a thing of ( Read more... )

"To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful."
  --C.G. Jung