“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
— Carl Jung
The Other Side of Silence
“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heartbeat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch
Memories
Digital Garden
Beware
“A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March”
— Brutus, Julius Caesar (1953)
The Death of Caesar
Pi
“A bell cannot tell time, but it can be moved in just such a way as to say twelve o’clock—similarly, a man cannot calculate infinite numbers, but he can be moved in just such a way as to say pi.”
― Daniel Tammet, Thinking in Numbers: How Maths Illuminates Our Lives
Two Views
I, I Mean Us
“when i say i, i mean us
but i’m not sure it’s my place to talk for you”
A Hole in the Status Quo
“Our anger was a fury sparked by profound injustices. Wrongs that deserved ire. And with that rage, we ripped a hole in the status quo.”
― Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Lisa Marie Blair 