"They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds."
- Banner carried by student protester in Mexico
"What if our lives were precious only up to a point? What if we held them loosely and understood that there were no guarantees? So that when you got sick, you weren’t a stage, but in a process. And cancer, just like having your heart broken or getting a new job or going to school or a teacher? What if rather than being cast out and defined by some terminal category you were identified as someone in the middle of a transformation that could deepen your soul, open your heart and all the while even if and particularly when you were dying, you would be supported by and be part of a community? And what if each of these things were what we are waiting for?"
- Eve Ensler, from a “A Second Wind in Life.” (via beingblog)
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Drop some oil on a piece of white notebook paper.
Rub your pencil very hard against a piece of tissue paper.
Put the tissue paper against the wall.Bring in an eggbeater.
Keep a record of the clouds you see.
Put water and gravel into a dishpan.Break apart stones to see if they contain…