"The opposite of war isn't peace. It's creation."
from the song "La Vie Boheme B" in Jonathan Larson's musical RENT. #creativity

To find a new world, maybe you have to have lost one. Maybe you have to be lost. The dance of renewal, the dance that made world, was always danced here at the edge of things, on the brink, on the foggy coast.
—Ursula Le Guin
#ursulaleguin #worldbuilding

"Building relationships between things is a form of authorship too."
—Mindy Seu
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“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”

@washingtonpost.com
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We broke the world to make it whole...

🖼️ "Moon in Sycamore Winter" by British artist Annie Ovenden.

“Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful."
— Assata Shakur
(July 16, 1947- September 26, 2025)

#northernlights @stormhour.com

Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are noncoercive knowledge produced in the interests of human freedom.

—Edward W. Said

I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against another, there should be criticism, because there must be critical consciousness if there are to be issues, problems, values, even lives to be fought for...

Assata Shakur // "Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful."

VANGUARD INVESTIGATION: Flawed Forensics and Unanswered Questions in Kevin Cooper Case - Davis Vanguard Kevin Cooper's legal team argues that the state's review of the DNA evidence used to convict him of the 1983 Chino Hills murders was not a rigorous investigation, and that the chain of custody of the ...

davisvanguard.org/2025/07/kevi...
Legal & forensic experts & civil rights advocates raise new alarms over DNA in #KevinCooper case!
#FreeKevinCooper #RacialJustice #HumanRights
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Angela Y. Davis said, “I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan: “Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.”

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.
—Maya Angelou
#mayaangelou

bell hooks said, “The point is not to render ideas less complex but to make the complex clear.”

"Slowing down is medicine."
—Unknown author

Don’t worry.
The heart knows the way though there may be high-rises,
interstates, checkpoints, armed soldiers, massacres, wars, and
those who will despise you because they despise themselves.
—Joy Harjo

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“A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants..."
― Doris Lessing
#libraries

Joy Harjo, For Keeps #joyharjo

I heard Jamie Washington say "the choir needs practice."

Rage for the world as it is / but for what it may be / more love now than last year.
—Muriel Rukeyser, “This Place in the Ways”

Alice Walker said, "In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful." #nature

“care is the antidote to violence”
— Saidiya Hartman