Bryan Gower

“Cynicism always comes clothed in "realism". The alternatives to begin with an act of imagination. Can we imagine another way?”
― Walter Brueggemann, An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture

“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
― Toni Morrison

“Grief is an element of aliveness and the answer to the denial the market demands of us. It is an index of our humanity. It is proof of the presence of our relatedness to each other. It is a communal practice that recognizes that choosing the wilderness of vulnerability, mystery, and anxiety was a good and life-affirming choice.”
― Walter Brueggemann, An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture

“Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you mustn’t shirk it. Love, after all, 'hopeth all things.' But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.”
― Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter