sleet

be a bright spark

to be continued - brain drain 10/18

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." - Emerson


-the social construction of failure
-assessment as a collective - working together to avoid complete individual failure
-resilience through working with others
-failure as a function of expectations

love like crazy

"What they did not want you to ever find out is that your generation, the generation born between 1980-1995, actually outnumbers the baby boomers. They knew that if you ever turned your eye towards political reform, you could change the world.

They tried to keep you sated on vapid television shows and vapid music. They cut off your education and fed you brain candy. They took away your music and gave you top ten pop stations. They cut off your art and replaced it with endless reality shows for you to plug into, hoping you would sit quietly by as they ran the world. I think they thought you were too dumb to notice.

Indeed, I thought they had won.

But I watched you occupy the capital of Wisconsin. I see you today as you occupy Wall Street. And I see a spark, a glimmer of the glorious new age that is your. A changing of the guard, a guard that has stood for entirely too long and needs your young legs to take his place.

I watch you turn away from what is easy and stand up for what is right. I see you understand we as a society are only as strong as our weakest link. I see you wise beyond your years. And I am proud. Give 'em hell kids. You are beautiful."

-Kate Danley

critical

Radical

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe dark motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable." - C.S. Lewis

"seeing more than black and white"

demagogue:
-anarchy
-unnecessary anger
-inciting unrest
-frustration
-easy

dialogue:
-neverending
-productive
-compromising
-critical (and self critical)
-difficult

trends

candles
surprises
the ocean
octopi
flowers that smell good (gardenias)
shades of blue and green
refurbished furniture
reading nooks
mason jars
country music
guitar
eyes that smile
lyrics that mean something
window sills
mountains
pumpkin
cinnamon
coffee
cowboy boots
chai
grass