The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.
Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. [...]
Archive for August, 2006
Another world
Posted in favorite things on August 27, 2006 | 2 Comments »
small things that might save us
Posted in me on August 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Baking bread.
Tending a garden.
An outstretched hand.
A smile.
Sincere questions:
”How do you feel about that?”
“What do you think?”
A listening heart.
life
Posted in favorite things on August 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
What’s lost is nothing to what’s found, and all the death that ever was set next to life would scarcely fill a cup.
Frederick Buechner
And one for Mom…
Posted in haiku on August 15, 2006 | 6 Comments »
When the cherry blossoms bloomed
They brought beauty to my heart.
Tatsu-jo
Firefly
Posted in haiku on August 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
If seen by day
A firefly
Is just a red-necked bug.
Basho
Basho’s Ghost
Posted in favorite things on August 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
From Basho’s Ghost by Sam Hamill:
Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Basho (1644-1694)
fifes of light
Posted in favorite things on August 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
…the drums of nothingness yield to the fifes of light….
St. John Perse
Everything that lives is holy
Posted in me on August 8, 2006 | 1 Comment »
William Blake said, “Everything that lives is holy.”
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Leaf, ant, flea
camel, cow,
you, me.
Holy.
Under cherry trees
Posted in haiku on August 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Under cherry trees
there are
no strangers
Kobayashi Issa
It was evening all afternoon
Posted in favorite things on August 6, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I love these lines from “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens:
It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow
