K.C.

“Each of us has a creation tale - how we came into this world. And I'll add this: each of us has an uncreation tale - how our lives came apart. That which undoes us. Sooner or later, it will claim you. Mark you. More than your creation.”
― Michael Hainey, After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story

“The word genocide is clinical, overly general, bloodless, and dehumanizing.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“Disturbingly, modern technological society has allowed us all to become nature’s bubble children who artificially dwell in that vacuum of cerebral abstraction that we know simply as material culture. But of course our existence on the planet is not an abstraction. Human culture is not really the universe we live in. That we can so rigorously sustain the illusion that we are somehow removed from the forces that perpetuate and sustain life on this planet is a strong indictment of modern humanity’s separation from nature and hints that simple human reason and common sense might also be largely illusory.”
― Joe Hutto, The Light in High Places: A Naturalist Looks at Wyoming Wilderness, Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, Cowboys, and Other Rare Species

“Everywhere you looked you saw people turned to stone. If you touched them, they'd crumble to dust. So they remained still and silent, trying not to shatter.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After