He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.
I couldn’t explain to her that I missed him more, more than she or anyone else missed him, because I could’t tell her about what happened with the phone. That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.
We cannot keep the kinds of meals we have known and also keep the planet we have known. We must either let some eating habits go or let the planet go. It is that straightforward, that fraught.
I used to be an atheist, which means I didn’t believe in things that couldn’t be observed. I believed that once you’re dead, you’re dead forever, and you don’t feel anything, and you don’t even dream. It’s not that I believe in things that can’t be observed now, because I don’t. It’s that I believe that things are extremely complicated.
Despite the near-constant regret he felt about being himself, he never confused himself for the problem. The problem was the world. It was the world that didn’t fit. But how much happiness has ever resulted from correcting the record on the culpability of the world?
She smiled a smile to bring a thousand ships to harbor.
When it comes to health, this research suggests that individual behavior is much more impactful than federal dietary guidelines, which most Americans do not meet. While structures matter-food deserts, subsidies, and unhealthy cafeterias undeniably influence diet-the most contagious standards are the ones that we model.
I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn’t the world, it wasn’t the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never letting go, is ignorance bliss, I don’t know, but it’s so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me?
No one who isn’t us is going to destroy Earth, and no one who isn’t us is going to save it. The most hopeless conditions can inspire the most hopeful actions. We have found ways to restore life on Earth in the event of a total collapse because we have found ways to cause a total collapse of life on Earth. We are the flood, and we are the ark.
At this moment in the environmental movement, we can jump from the bridge, or we can cross it. We can allow the fear that it’s too late or too difficult to ensure resources for future generations to incapacitate us, or we can allow those fears to capacitate us.
They had never seen one another from afar. They had never known the deepest intimacy, that closeness attainable only with distance.
I think this is why I relish writing for you so much. It makes it possible for me to be not like I am, but as I desire for Little Igor to see me. I can be funny, because I have time to meditate about how to be funny, and I can repair my mistakes when I perform mistakes, and I can be a melancholy person in matters that are interesting, not only melancholy. When writing, we have second chances.
La gabbia standard per ovaiole concede a ogni gallina una superficie di 4,32 decimetri quadrati, grande come questo rettangolo. Quasi tutte quelle non allevate in gabbia hanno a disposizione all’incirca la stessa superficie.
Yes, but the day has been decades.
Temple Grandin has argued that ordinary people can become sadistic from the dehumanizing work of constant slaughter.
From the unemployed Sloucher Lumpl W, who reclined on Passover not because it was religious custom but because why should that night be different from all others?: I’m not the greatest person that ever lived, but I would be a good father, and you know it.
Martin Luther King Jr. wrote passionately about the time when “one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular.” Sometimes we simply have to make a decision because “one’s conscience tells one that it is right.
Time passed, the world exerted itself, and Jacob and Julia began to forget to do things on purpose.
In the meantime, while I think-while you think, while we think-our actions and inactions create and destroy the world.
Cat lovers display an intensity lacking – thank goodness – in most human relationships.