The Best Stuff I Read This

“[In this space,] a small fountain of
Concrete. Permanent seasonal
Arrangement disorder.”

— Thea Brown / “The Gardener”

“Some people have asked if I’m on a quest to figure out what to do with my life, but it’s almost the exact opposite. When I’m outside, I get so immersed in wherever I am that it’s sort of impossible to think about my long-term future.”

— Matt Green / “Leaving His Footprints on the City” / The New York Times

“… there must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism. Call it what you may, call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all of God’s children.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr. / The Radical King

“It is extraordinary, in a week when record spring temperatures are affecting Europe, and in a year when El Niño conditions in the Pacific could result in the planet coming within a whisker of the 1.5C dangerous climate change guardrail, the government is doing all it can to keep the oil and gas flowing.

You really couldn’t make it up.”

— Bill McKibben / “Cool Earth”

“I have seen the sun own the land. I have seen it bake 
into our hands. And I have seen it sleep in a dark coverlet
while the sky opens loose, and the coyotes, in their constellation,
propose a trick.”

— Analicia Sotelo / “Eating the Moon in Cotulla, TX”

“Where did my edges go?
What holds
head to neck, hand to fingers,
brain to sickness?”

— Allison Hutchcraft / “Though from Here I Can’t Smell the Smoke”

“The climate crisis is not really about the climate. It’s about us.”

— Ben Okri / “A Sacred Place”

What I’m Listening To:

“Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather
Shiny leather in the dark
Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart”

— The Velvet Underground & Nico / “Venus in Furs”