On the phone, at a gas station, in our dreams
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A ghost in the house, the police at the door, a phone call in a dream
Featuring Poe Ballantine, Pramila Jayapal, Paul Hawken, and more.
It is impossible to be a human being connected by affection to others and not be vulnerable to pains beyond our own.
Government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to destroy. Molly Ivins
Government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to destroy.
Molly Ivins
Every major advance for justice in our country took no more than 1 percent of adults — around 2.5 million people — with public opinion behind them, mobilizing to change government policy. If you’ve got 2.5 million people, you can recover our country, recover our government, recover our hopes and dreams.
I was dressed and ready for church, waiting while the others bustled about in preparation, when a sudden conviction took hold of me: “I’m not going,” I told my mother.
Someone has died. Someone I loved the way I love my own hands. And I am alive in the bright, fading day, flying above the earth and sea.
A book’s characters always wait for us. No matter what happens to me during the day, Kerouac remains exactly where he was yesterday. He never moves without my permission. I reanimate him at my whim.
We need constant proof that we’re not alone. And if we don’t see a companion, we strain to hear one in the dark. And when there is no whistle in return? I’m here to tell you, we will make one up.
I felt I was supposed to pretend I was a little sad he was gone — at least, for the first few days. I told him I missed him, because I did. I’m not a complete monster.