Brian Willson

“reread James Street’s Tap Roots and By Valour and Arms, Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, MacKinlay Kantor’s Andersonville, Bruce Catton’s A Stillness at Appomattox, and all the works of Shelby Foote.”
― James Lee Burke, A Private Cathedral

“Einstein said, “I believe in Spinoza’s god, who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a god who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.”
― Deon Meyer, Fever

“Traditionally, at the feet of an Oluwo, you will be taught the knowledge bank (Ifá verses) gathered by him around but not the OGBON (wisdom) & ÒYE (Understanding), this is something you YOURSELF must do for YOURSELF. No one can help you attain that. You can have the Knowledge (IMO) of Ifá verses in its TRADITIONAL form but lack OGBON ati OYÈ of what Ifá is in its purest form because you are yet to tap into the ocean of ENLIGHTENMENT that’s”
― Olusegun Daramola, IFÁ: THE ENLIGHTENMENT (VOLUME ONE): LOOK WITHIN

“there would be no sign that Molly Nurmi had ever been. In the time before the cold science of the whites came to Iron Lake, the Anishinaabe believed the water was bottomless. There was a tradition among the Iron Lake Ojibwe. Before they were married, a couple would take strands of their hair and braid a cord. On the day they were wed, they tied the cord around a stone, canoed to the middle of the lake, and dropped the stone into the water. The stone descended forever, they believed”
― William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters