The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.
nothing, inc.
A collection of ephemera and the occasional musings of an audiophile.
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’
Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you’.
—Erich Fromm
pretty much
One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am — a reluctant enthusiast… a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.
—Edward Abbey
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
—Charles Baudelaire (via mythologyofblue)
Typing
Not much time for reflection or letter-writing these days.
A Call for Linda Katehi’s Resignation
This is the letter that I just sent to the UC Davis chancellor on behalf of the students, the school, and our constitutional rights. I encourage everyone who reads this to do the same.
This is what happened at UC Davis on Friday. Avoid watching if violence upsets you, it is incredibly disturbing.
Dear Linda Katehi,
Resign. Immediately. And please, maintain some shred of dignity: there is no justification for your blind support of police brutality. Your acts are indefensible: unleashing riot police on a circle of students on the Quad, historically a place for students to gather and exercise their first amendment rights, is anti-American and inhuman. Accept you were wrong. You are not fit to act in the best interests of students, faculty, or the institution.
I have spent 12 years working on behalf of basic human rights and am sickened by this event. As an alumna, I would only support a scholarship that benefits the sprayed protestors. At least they have courage and a moral compass, something you and your police force obviously lack. Good luck finding some of both — they will help with that resignation letter.
Sincerely,
Natalie
International Relations, class of 2003
A Dream
by Edgar Allan Poe
In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed-
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.
Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?
That holy dream- that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.
What though that light, thro’ storm and night,
So trembled from afar-
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth’s day-star?
This poem reminds me of the dear archivists of the world.
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