Make Em Laugh... You'll Die Last

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other. - Alan Alda

Words words words

The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of their meaning. Once you've got the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? - Chuang Tzu

Revolution!! (against yourself)

If ever I would stop thinking about music and politics
I would tell you that the personal revolution
is far more difficult
and the first step in any revolution – Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

Open Your Heart, Free Your Soul

The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe. The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightning and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not. - The Upanishads

On waking after the accident

I was presented with the "whole picture"

as they say, magnificently detailed,

a child's diorama of what life appears to be:

staring at the picture I became drowsy

with relief when I noticed a yellow

dot of light in the lower right-hand corner.
I unhooked the machines and tubes and crawled

to the picture, with an eyeball to the dot

of light which turned out to be a miniature

tunnel at the end of which I could see

mountains and stars whirling and tumbling,

sheets of emotions, vertical rivers, upside

down lakes, herds of unknown mammals, burds

shedding feathers and regrowing them instantly,

snakes with feathered heads eating their own

shed skins, fish swimming straight up,

the bottom of Isaiah's robe, live whales

on dry ground, lions drinking from a golden

bowl of milk, the rush of night,

and somewhere in this the murmur of gods--

a tree-rubbing-tree music, a sweet howl

of water and rock-grating-rock, fire

hissing from fissures, the moon settled

comfortably on the ground, beginning to roll.

-- Jim Harrison, from The Theory and Practice of Rivers

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be writers

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. – Albert Camus

I believe the children are our future...

Swayze wisdom

All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice.- Dalton, Road House

What if someone calls my momma a whore?

Strict Ideology = Bad; Thinking for Yourself = good

All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life. – Jean Goss