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“berry-picking is the first step in a lifelong companionship with the living world”

“Organizing subverts and transforms dominant systems of power, it transforms our imaginations in prefiguring a future beyond our present day apocalyptic deathscape, it transforms our collective processes by nurturing relationality, and it transforms us as people as we realize our own capacities.”

“Organizing is deply transformative: it subverts and transforms dominant systems of power, it transforms our imaginations in prefiguring a future beyond our present day apocalyptic deathscape, it transforms our collective processes by nurturing relationality, and it transforms us as people as we realize our own capacities.”

"Becoming aware of grief gives us more choices about how to respond to grief and opens up possibilities to approach grief not only with compassion for self and others, but also with joy. Joy is not the opposite of grief. Grief is the opposite of indifference.”

“the ultimate claustrophobia is the syllogism; the ultimate claustrophobia is ‘it all adds up.’”

“It is the dimension of time wherein man meets God, wherein man becomes aware that every instant is an act of creation, a Beginning, opening up new roads for ultimate realizations. Time is the presence of God in the world of space, and it is within time that we are able to sense the unity of all beings.”

“Time has independent ultimate significance; it is of more majesty and more provocative of awe than even a sky studded with stars. Gliding gently in the most ancient of all splendors, it tells so much more than space can say in its broken language of things, playing symphonies upon the instruments of isolated beings, unlocking the earth and making it happen.”

“What is the Sabbath? Spirit in the form of time.
With our bodies we belong to space; our spirit, our souls, soar to eternity, aspire to the holy.”

“To name it [the sabbath] queen, to call it bride is merely to allude to the fact that its spirit is a reality we meet rather than an empty span of time which we choose to set aside for comfort or re-cuperation.”

"The Sabbath is a reminder of the two worlds-this world and the world to come; it is an example of both worlds. For the Sabbath is joy, holiness, and rest; joy is part of this world; holiness and rest are something of the world to come."

“My patience was zero. I didn't want to wait for something to happen. I was into living and living for now. I was hungry, starving for life, but at the same time i was growing more and more cynical enery day. I wanted to go everywhere, do everything, and be everything, all at the same time. I wanted to experience everything, know how everything felt.”

“There was Lil Deb’s Oasis, a queer restaurant and destination, the warmest lap in town but also as wet and alive as a jungle. She got the feeling that she might drown in gender fluids if she stepped inside, or that her own gender, not that solid to begin with, might deliquesce like fungi and stain the pink counter stool, but that it might be good for her, just what she needed.”

“Let me declare my bias outright: Chill is a miserable attitude when it comes to hosting gatherings.”

“Beneath her fingertips, the frost makes billions of tiny diadema and coronas on the slat of the bench, a lattice of dumbfounding complexity.”

“Above Fort National, the dawn becomes deeply, murderously clear. The Milky Way a fading river. He looks across to the fires. He thinks: The universe is full of fuel.”

“The Pyrenees gleam. A pitted moon stands on their crests as if impaled.”

practices to note: go to the funeral. get to know neighbors. start by serving (esp when “finding urself”). bear with-ness. stay at the table. joy does not preclude mourning but lives inside it.

“What mattered most about those campaigns was the boldness with which they were broadcasting that from here on out, nothing means anything anymore…the normalization of the disassociation between words from reality which could only usher in the era of irony and flat detachment, cause those seem like the only self-respecting postures to adopt in a world where everyone was lying all the time.”

taking a pause on reading this for now, will be back when everything feels less heavy and intense or when i feel more mentally equipped to hold it all

“To be alive is to be embodied. To be embodied is to struggle and thrive and struggle and thrive. This inherent oscillation is our birthright.”