To live in this world

you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it
go,
to let it go.

~ Mary Oliver

“It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis,”  

Henry Miller

“a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless”

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Something good that happened this year: This movie and this song.