Katie K

“have a Theory. It’s that an awful thing has happened—our cerebellum has not been correctly connected to our brain. This could be the worst mistake in our programming. Someone has made us badly. This is why our model ought to be replaced. If our cerebellum were connected to our brain, we would possess full knowledge of our own anatomy, of what was happening inside our bodies. Oh, we’d say to ourselves, the level of potassium in my blood has fallen. My third cervical vertebra is feeling tension. My blood pressure is low today, I must move about, and yesterday’s egg salad has sent my cholesterol level too high, so I must watch what I eat today.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“I have always loved the many moods of the sky at Rocky Flats. Turquoise and teal in summer, fiery red at sunset, iron gray when snow is on the way. The land rolls in waves of tall prairie grass bowed to the wind, or sprawling mantles of white frosted with a thin sheath of ice in winter.”
― Kristen Iversen, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats

“Plutonium is the darling and the demon of the nuclear age.”
― Kristen Iversen, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats

“The body is an organ of memory, holding traces of all our experiences. The land, too, carries the burden of all its changes. To truly see and understand a landscape is to see its depth as well as its smooth surfaces, its beauty and its scars.”
― Kristen Iversen, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats