cleothedog
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May 20, 2019
if not now, when?
if not who, us?
if not where, here?
April 30, 2019
look at that cat
frisking about
she is a nocturnal beast
she is a night creature
March 13, 2019
liz p
“And the license said you had to stick around until I was dead,
but if you’re tired of looking at my face I guess I already am.
But you’ve never been a waste of my time,
it’s never been a drag…”
-Divorce Song
March 8, 2019
Greta Thunberg, clip via Democracy Now!
“You say you love your children above all else? And yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes. Until you start focusing on what needs to be done, rather than what is politically possible, there is no hope. We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis. We need to keep the fossil fuels in the ground, and we need to focus on equity. And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself.
We have not come here to beg world leaders to care. You have ignored us in the past and you will ignore us again. You have run out of excuses, and we are running out of time. We have come here to let you know that change is coming whether you like it or not. The real power belongs to the people.”
January 31, 2019
“Sleeping in the Forest”
I thought the earth remembered me, she
took me back so tenderly, arranging
her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds. I slept
as never before, a stone
on the riverbed, nothing
between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated
light as moths among the branches
of the perfect trees. All night
I heard the small kingdoms breathing
around me, the insects, and the birds
who do their work in the darkness. All night
I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling
with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.
-Mary Oliver (“Twelve Moons”)
January 9, 2019
“That’s okay, I still love you!”
said Bear.
“That’s okay, I still love you!”
said the moon.
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