“And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the wet years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”
John Steinbeck
Friday, January 10, 2025
Thursday, January 9, 2025
no. 951
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
- James Baldwin (1924-1987)
no. 950
"To embrace hopelessness is to distance oneself from middle-class privilege that assumes all is going to work out in the end."
Monday, January 6, 2025
no. 948
“I know that dogs and other creatures have lessons, important lessons, to teach us if we’re willing to learn. I know that the wilderness gives us space to know ourselves, and God, if we take the time to listen.”
Leland Dirks
no. 947
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
—Buckminster Fuller
Sunday, January 5, 2025
no. 944
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
-ALVIN TOFFLER
no. 943
“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex: you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.”
James Baldwin
Saturday, January 4, 2025
no. 942
"My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am."
"I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual."
Happy birthday Michael Stipe
Born: January 4, 1960
Decatur, Georgia, United States
no. 940
“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post”
— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos
Friday, January 3, 2025
no. 939
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear."
Thomas Jefferson, 1787
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
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