This Week…

“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”

–H. L. Mencken

“I voted for you during your last election.”

— Mao Zedong

“Maybe the journey isn’t about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t really you, so that you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”

–Paulo Coelho

“The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.”

–Sylvia Boorstein

“Death is like a white cop arresting a black man – the more you resist the more it hurts!”

–Stephone Watson

“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.”

–Simone de Beauvoir

“Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight. She helps us to discover what matters most.”

–Frank Ostaseski

“What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

–Mary Oliver

“I feel more helpless with you than without you.”

–Adrienne Rich

“Lying is done with words, and also with silence.”

–Adrienne Rich, Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying