Chase Stewart

“Only one thing that you can see and hear that is beautiful and frightening at the same time, and that is a thunder storm.”
― R.K. Cowles

“To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways..." (The Rape Of The Swan)

Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism.”
― The Poet Archibald MacLeish

“How many hands were shook and names were signed
and pipes were passed congenially in a circle,
before the first of the used-car dealerships rose up
on the ground where the gods had walked?”
― Albert Goldbarth, Everyday People: Poems

“The truth is that we're drowning in busywork, nonproductive work, everything from "creative" banking and insurance bureaucracies to the pointless shuffling of data and the manufacturing of products designed to be obsolescent almost immediately- and I would argue that a great deal of what we're doing should just stop. Interestingly, people of all sorts are beginning to reconnect to skills and sensibilities that were bulldozed in the frenzy of 'development' that remade our world during the past two generations. Those orchards and fields that once covered the peninsula, the East Bay, and Silicon Valley are haunting us now, as we seek to relocalize our food sources and our economy more generally. People are relearning how to reuse things, how to fix broken items, and even how to make new things from the scraps of industrial waste. The world shaped by capitalist modernization is not good for human life and is certainly rough on the health of the planet. The hollowing out of communities whose lives were once anchored in the old Produce Market area or who shared life along the vibrant Fillmore blues corridor is precisely what people are trying to overcome.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas