Activism Is Not A Journey To The

Hope Is Not A Lottery Ticket You Can Sit On The Sofa And Clutch, Feeling Lucky. It Is An Axe You Break Down Doors With In An Emergency. Hope Should Shove You Out The Door, Because It Will Take Everything You Have To Steer The Future Away From Endless War, From The Annihilation Of The Earth's Treasures And The Grinding Down Of The Poor And Marginal. To Hope Is To Give Yourself To The Future - And That Commitment To The Future Is What Makes The Present Inhabitable.

There Are Infinite Shades Of Grey. Writing Often Appears So Black And White.

It Turns Out That We're Actually Capable Of Something Other Than Neoliberalism And Actually We're Really Capable Of Enjoying Ourselves More Than We Do Under Neoliberalism. It Feels That If Neoliberalism Is First About Privatizing Desire And Imagination Before The Economy, Then We're In This Process Of Publicizing It Again.

The Bigness Of The World Is Redemption. Despair Compresses You Into A Small Space, And A Depression Is Literally A Hollow In The Ground. To Dig Deeper Into The Self, To Go Underground, Is Sometimes Necessary, But So Is The Other Route Of Getting Out Of Yourself, Into The Larger World, Into The Openness In Which You Need Not Clutch Your Story And Your Troubles So Tightly To Your Chest.

....there Are Three Prerequisites To Going Out Into The World To Walk For Pleasure. One Must Have Free Time, A Place To Go, And A Body Unhindered By Illness Or Social Restraints.