The best a mystic can say is that while none of us are one of a kind we’re all kind of a one
“You want fries with that?” used to be a line to mock the working poor How ironic that “You want fries with that?”
The first thing I fell in love with was her out-of-office notification
If God is dead we get eternal recurrence, when things just keep happening ov… and transference, where every authority figure
It is only when you conduct a fearless moral inventory that you will come to fear God because you knew the right thing t… but did the wrong thing anyway
Decisions my wife doesn’t make are settled by stare decisis
In the past walking into a cathedral made you feel small Now it makes you feel fat
We treat life as if Postponing the inevitable When we should be busy Preparing for the inestimable
Acting locally solved climate change but now instead of a life or death situati… which at least had a degree of rom…
We’d all been taught As the temps got hot That all was for naught And that was our lot So, we’d cashed out and bought
We expect a fiduciary relationship with our financial advisors and all they do is help handle the money Yet we so often fail
As mysterious as the caterpillar bursting into the butterfly a lifetime of following all the ru… somehow prepared them to change all the rules
Late capitalism compensated for it… by blending it into its own propri… No one can redeem the past But everyone can redeem coupons!
Losing what you never had is only possible when you look for it exactly where it never was
You’re supposed to love everybody but everybody knows that’s putting all of your eggs in one ba… so everybody eggs each other on in making a western omelet