Nothing persuades me that “in image of God” applies only to humans. I sense mountains, rivers, trees, lakes, animals, are far closer to essence of God than humans -Jung * “breathless, go to Lvov, after all it exists, quiet and pure as a peach. It is everywhere. -Zagajewski

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"Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and new ..."

When I said below that one day after Israel murdered a 14-year-old American in the West Bank, Trump would hold Netanyahu's chair for him like a waiter, I was speaking metaphorically because he did it the last time. But yes, he did it again today:🇮🇱🇺🇸

Client In the eerie blue half-light of her monastic cell in the strip mall the professional pours out her hurt to one who came not to give and will depart untouched by hands leaving the usual tip

ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI from Mysticism for Beginners 1997 ⁦Farrar,Straus&Giroux⁩ This utopia appeared in 1997 and now serves as a meditation and also a critique of the American cultural collapse. Spiritual traditions mix with humanism. The natural environment embraces and nourishes the human.

Viet Thanh Nguyen explains why most American literature is the literature of empire. lithub.com/viet-thanh-ngu…

Paul Simon was not 30 when he wrote The Boxer and Mrs Robinson, and that hurts.

"They're not getting away with it" youtu.be/cmEbDNZiaiY?si…

Fitting that they use the same word. I'm realizing that when you finally accept that you're screwed, it actually feels pretty good.

Emptying Gaza (w/ Norman Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report normanfinkelstein.com/emptying-gaza-…

Marie Howe. From: New and Selected Poems (Norton, 2024).

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lipping flowers

Rilke