“At such moments, courage is necessary,” Mr. Obama said. “We need courage to stand up to hate, not just in others, but in ourselves. At such moments, we need the courage to stand up to dogma, not just in others, but in ourselves.”
“There is a fever that overcomes a book-lover who has limited time to spend on Ober’s island. A fever to read. Or at least to open the books. There is no question of finishing or even delving deeply. I have only days. Among the books, I feel what is almost a low swell of grief, a panic.” Books and Islands in Ojibway Country
“Books are our guardians of memory, tutors in language, pathways to reason, and our golden gate to the royal road of imagination. Books take us to new places where boundaries are not set by someone else’s pictures on a television screen and our thoughts are not drowned out by sounds on a boom box. Books help us pose the unimagined question and to accept the unwelcome answer. Books convince rather than coerce. They are oases of coherence where things are put together rather than just taken apart. Good books take us away from the bumper cars of emotion and polemics in the media into trains of thought that can lead us into places we might not otherwise ever discover.
Reading a book can become a private conversation with someone from a time and place other than our own — a voyage into both mastery and mystery.”The Meaning of the Library; ed. Alice Crawford
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that in a choice something awful will occur that I missed somehow in the deciding process IF I choose to do something that feels good
I took Alban Arthan to be the name of the cellist until I searched and found it’s a solstice celebration. Wikipedia says that “the name derives from the writings of Iolo Morganwg, the 19th-century radical poet and forger.” “Radical poet and forger” is hardly a description you run into every day.
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Whoa! I was short sighted not to see that possibility! oopsieeee
Giggling and grinning and shouting, “Druid Power!!!” on my insides.
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