“ Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.
What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale. ”
“We Were Made For These Times,” by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
American poet, post-trauma specialist and Jungian psychoanalyst, author of Women Who Run With the Wolves.
(Source: grahameb.com)
“ You learn to write from reading books, and living your life, and investigating the inside of your own head. Next, you learn how to write comics by pulling them apart and studying their innards to see how they work. This is how you end up as a 24/7 comics writer and also a terrifying shut-in who will eventually go nuts in a very public way and conclude your career as a figure in a newspaper photo captioned FOREST CREATURE SUBDUED BY POLICE TASERS. ”
Warren Ellis is a global treasure.
“ This is why Kafka said, “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us,” or why Shelley remembers “the hour which burst / My spirit’s sleep.” The fact is, our spirit has a tendency to slumber and we constantly need awakenings, which is what art does and what a liberal education focused on the humanities should do. ”
Proud of Ghana today.
Recap: Ghana is suffering a crippling power crisis. Accra has blackouts lasting 36 hours or more, multiple times a week. Employers have began mass layoffs. Children are being born by the light of cellphones. Entire families have died from carbon monoxide poisoning from the fumes of their generators, or burnt alive from overturned candles. All the while as tonedeaf leaders make truly baffling pronouncements.
Today, thousands of Ghanaians registered civic anguish with passion, poise, and characterictic Ghanaian good humour.
We can be so much more. #dumsormuststop
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