Today I saw a bumper sticker that said, “Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” I think that’s right, but it’s also only part of the story. I think that the judicial system is also what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. And the police. And what we are taught in school keeps the poor from murdering the rich. The stories we are taught at home from infancy are what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. The belief that it is acceptable to be rich is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. The desire to be like them keeps the poor from murdering the rich. None of this, of course, keeps the rich from murdering the poor.

Derrick Jensen, The Culture of Make Believe (2004)

In the back of a drawer I saw a baggie with some round, black objects in it. I thought they were chocolate doughnuts. I got mad at myself for forgetting about chocolate doughnuts in the drawer. Then I wondered why I stashed chocolate doughnuts in the first place and couldn’t remember when I would have done so. Then I got mad at myself for stashing food and wondered when I had started that habit.

They turned out to be the wheels to a cart.

This site started as a disjointed web log, turned into a blog, and then became defunct. It was no longer an eighth of me, but a weird attempt at being the whole of me.

We’re going to head in a new direction this time around.