Gretchen

“when it’s time to break down and you’re lying in bed fighting off the urge to scream, when you’re lying there shivering, it’s not the memories that keep you going. instead it’s the dreams and the cats blaring evil and godlike into the blankness. at times like this, it’s best just to sit back and let what is be.”
― Scott C. Holstad, Distant Visions, Again and Again

“i am nothing but bits of paper, grains of sand pressed hot against hard flesh, campfires burning bright against the still night. i am man‑flesh human life walking ~ dreaming, twitching under the noonday sun.”
― Scott C. Holstad

“Two aphorisms I advocate and live by: 1) "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it." (Actually, this is a common mis-quotation from the source, George Santayana, who wrote specifically in Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense from his book, The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." 2) "NO religion can stand up to two words: PROVE IT!" (Source unknown).”
― Scott C. Holstad

“what society dictates
we consume
cattle gathering around
learning devices called
television
mouths opening wider
while addictive morsels
of consumerism are
violently jammed into
us
and we lose more
bits and pieces
of our collective identity
daily”
― Scott C. Holstad, Hang Gliding on X