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“That kind of comedy always exists on the edge of what you’re allowed to say at the moment. And that edge keeps moving. With the moment.”

“It seems very American to expect grief to change something. Like a token you cash in. A formula. Grieve X amount, receive Y amount of comfort.”

“So much of his psychic bandwidth was taken up with conflicting thoughts about political prepositions. The morality of almond milk. The ethics of yoga. The politics of sonnets. There was nothing in his life that wasn’t contaminated by what he mostly mindlessly called “late capitalism”. He hated it, like everyone was supposed to. But it was a hate that made nothing happen.”

“She took her Eucharist before me, and I quietly apologized to Jesus for the downgrade from her tongue to mine.”

I feel his hair on my cheek, on my neck.
I have the same feeling I get right before I start crying.

“Stack your duds and grease your skids, coyote!”

Respect God:
Pray working.
Pray learning,
Planning,
Doing.
Pray creating,
Teaching,
Reaching.
Pray working.
Pray to focus your thoughts,
Still your fears,
Strengthen your purpose.
Respect God.
Shape God.
Pray working.

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Unhappy Waiters and Killers of Time

“A stable culture, government or institution has built into it its own demise. It is open to change, open even to being overthrown. It is open, period. Gracefully open. That’s stability. That’s alive.”

I finally got to the part that talks about the Clock People and it’s so beautiful. Page 187-194