Enough

So let us go on, cheerfully enough,
this and every crisping day,
though the sun be swinging east,
and the ponds be cold and black,
and the sweets of the year be doomed.
--Mary Oliver (Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness) [11.13.13]

Economics

Economics is at heart a narrative art, a frame across which data points are woven into stories about how the world should work.
--Nathan Heller

Path

I cannot cause light, the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.
--Annie Dillard [10.01.99]

Gift

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.
--Thich Nhat Hanh [01.22.16]

Magical

Political dedication by its nature requires a degree of magical thinking: a privileging of optimism over lived experience.
--Rebecca Traister

Belongs

I celebrate myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you.
--Walt Whitman [12.13.13]

Room

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
--Mary Oliver

Days

Where can we live but days?
--Philip Larkin [05.09.07]

Uncomfortable

I was so sick of lying about how I felt to make other people feel less uncomfortable around me.
--Gary Gulman

Fire

Time is the fire in which we burn.
--Delmore Schwartz

Totally

Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.
--Marshall McLuhan (1965)

Rational

Looking back over human history, rationality has been the anomaly. Being rational takes work, education, and a sober determination to avoid making hasty inferences, even when they appear to make perfect sense.
--Amy Wallace [10.26.09]

Strangest

Capitalism is the strangest thing in the universe: a thing which turns other things into nothing. All the forests and oceans and rivers and mountains--where are they now? They "made money." They were made into money. They were literally turned into capital. They are sitting in the bank accounts of the ultra-rich, doing nothing.
--Umar Haque

Enchained

All things are enchained with one another, bound together by love.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness

I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
--Isaac Newton [01.08.01]

Yourself

You can be your best self only when you're being yourself.
--Charlie Morton

We Know

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
--St. Augustine

Joy

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
--Bertrand Russell [11.29.12]

Who

Who am I, and what would he be doing?
--Angus Johnston