“Joy is an act of defiance,’ said the Khan. ‘With joy, we win, even if we lose. To have lived well is a victory all its own, for we all die. Death is unimportant to the laughing warrior. A poet makes tragedy glorious. That is why.”  ― ...

My hunch is that joy is an ember for or precursor to wild and unpredictable and transgressive and unboundaried solidarity. … Though attending to what we hate is often all the rage (and it happens to be very big business) noticing what we love in co...

Thoughts On a French Rockstar I imagine she sings about justice, peace, and love. Slowly walking past a cubist black and white war story she sings inside a red velvet rope. Her hands carry grief. Her ears hear every cry. Her lips tell the story...

Now I become myself./It's taken time, many years and places./I have been dissolved and shaken,/Worn other people's faces . . . May Sarton Chapter Two in Parker Palmer's Let You Life Speak: Listening For the Voice of Vocation, "Now I Become Myself...