- Sep 2024
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Out there or inside my head,it's an equal darkness. Or light
Signifying the emptiness, the indifference and hopelessness of her situation. And yet there is still light, still a hope that can be salvaged -- hence the title being Desperation
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- Apr 2024
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The measure of control is also the measure of responsibility. Respon-sibility without control is a hopeless proposition.
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- Oct 2021
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“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.
Quoted by Amanda Joy Ravenhill on RE & CO Radio, Wednesday, October 13, 2021.
This leads to a sense of learned hopelessness: Things are worse than you imagined, and there is nothing you can do about it.
But Buckminster Fuller said, “We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims.”
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- Oct 2016
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Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit There is not even silence in the mountains
These dry summer mountains are so different from the sheltering winter mountains in the beginning of the poem. The mountain is dead, and still able to work destruction even with "teeth that cannot spit." We get away from death by water and leap into the jaws of death by thirst...escaping the misery is impossible.
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