January 2021

Robbers never strike at the homes of the poor;
Private wealth does not benefit the entire nation.
Calamity has its source in the accumulated riches of a few,
People who lose their souls for ten thousand coins.
- Ikkyū
2:00 PM Jan 31st

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?
 - Confucius
12:00 PM Jan 29th

The days run away like wild horses over the hills.
 - Charles Bukowski
5:00 PM Jan 26th

You gave me
in secret one thing
to perceive, the
tall blue starry
strangeness of being

here at all.
 - Franz Wright
8:30 AM Jan 25th

When people struggling against an injustice have no hope that anything will ever change, they use their strength to survive; when they think that their actions matter, that same strength becomes a force for positive change.
 - Susan Stryker
12:00 PM Jan 22nd

Each of us deserves to be forgiven, if only for
Our persistence in keeping our small boat afloat
When so many have gone down in the storm.
 - Robert Bly
8:30 AM Jan 21st

We are more than the worst thing that's ever happened to us. All of us need to stop apologizing for having been to hell and come back breathing.
 - Clementine von Radics
5:00 PM Jan 20th

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
 - Lin Yutang
12:30 PM Jan 19th

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.
 - Lynda Barry
8:30 AM Jan 17th

It's always the same old problem: how to find ourselves in the great yammering of ego and tragedy and discomfort and obsession with everyone else's destinies.
 - Anne Lamott
8:00 AM Jan 16th

I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.
 - Kathleen Norris
12:00 PM Jan 15th

There is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
 - D. H. Lawrence
8:00 AM Jan 14th

So I offer you only my deeply affectionate and compassionate thoughts and wish for you only that the strange thing may never fail you, whatever it is, that gives us the strength to live on and on with our wounds.
 - Samuel Beckett
12:15 PM Jan 12th

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
 - Leo Rosten
12:30 PM Jan 11th

I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.
 - Rebecca Solnit
8:45 AM Jan 8th

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.
 - G. K. Chesterton
12:30 PM Jan 5th

People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.
 - Banana Yoshimoto
8:00 AM Jan 4th

What happens is that whenever a society really gets in trouble, and you can use this in your own life - when you really get in trouble - what you should do is say "what did I believe in the last sane moments that I experienced" and then go back to that moment and act from it even if you no longer believe it.
 - Terence McKenna
9:30 AM Jan 2nd