Conflicting Messages

Via. Open Salon.

The Secret

     by Denise Levertov

Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry.

I who don't know the
secret wrote
the line. They
told me

(through a third person)
they had found it
but not what it was
not even

what line it was. No doubt
by now, more than a week
later, they have forgotten
the secret,

the line, the name of
the poem. I love them
for finding what
I can't find,

and for loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it
so that

a thousand times, till death
finds them, they may
discover it again, in other
lines

in other
happenings. And for
wanting to know it,
for

assuming there is
such a secret, yes,
for that
most of all.


from: Poems 1960-1967. Copyrightt 1966, 1964.

Some People Are NEVER Happy!

And the chief issue among bailout critics wasn’t the long-term survival of Chrysler (they were willing to let the automaker die after all) but whether the company could ever pay back the money it borrowed from the government. 

Well, it just did. So Chrysler lives to fight another day, thousands of Americans keep their jobs and the company continues to expand and post profits. 

- Eideard.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

[N]o citizen should be so opulent that he can buy another, and none so poor that he is constrained to sell himself. 

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau,

In response to the question of how much equality democracy requires.

From this vantage, the danger of inequality is not immiseration,
... but domination.

- Archon Fung, Winning the Future.

A Belated HAPPY 100Th BIRTHDAY . . .

“To those who say this civil rights program is an infringement on states’ rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states’ rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights.”

- Hubert Humphry.

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Word by Painstaking Word

A Conversation With Stephen Hawking

By CLAUDIA DREIFUS

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit, as well as physically.