just a time from now

...my friends list has been pretty quiet about the election but here's the thing, I don't intend to be. So, if you are pro-Trump, you may want to unfriend me and if you simply don't want to deal with politics, you may want to unfriend me because I have a desire to rant & rage. Not often, but often enough.


Hence this quote.

You must protest / It is your diamond duty / Ah but in such an ugly time the true protest is beauty.
Phil Ochs, folksinger_1940-1976

My clarion call,          to do my art with more purpose, beauty wedded with protest.
And to not be quiet as a charleton is normalized as respectable.

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    I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
          John Cage, Composer_5 Sep 1912 to 12 Aug 1992

If you don't know much about him, here's a little bit from KQED's American Masters series. Personally, I think I enjoy Cage's philosophy about music more than the music itself, his new of sixty years ago still being maybe a little too new for me today. Still, his impact, through his own compositions and through his collaborations with all manner of artists, painters, other composers, and choreographers, is a long-lasting and definite game-changer.

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Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun
          -Christina Rossetti, poet (1830-1894)

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—	Stephen Fry

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A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular
          -Adlai Stevenson, governor, ambassador (1900-1965)

As usual, snagged from wordsmith.org

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Snagged from a book, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall, that I'm reading,
'We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing. We take it for granted so simply that in a sense, by the very act of brutish routine acceptance, we undo the work of the ages, the history of the gradual elaboration of poetical description and construction, from the treeman to Browning, from the caveman to Keats. What if we awake one day, all of us, and find ourselves utterly unable to read? I wish you to gasp not only at what you read but at the miracle of its being readable.'
     -Vladimir Nabokov_Pale Fire
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and for everyone, but most especially for spike7451


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What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset
          -Crowfoot, Native American warrior and orator (1821-1890)

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