"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against
the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better,
but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse
than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking
primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions,
to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley
"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination.
All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.
"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"
That’s cute. Thanks for sharing even if I see a (tiny) little bit of myself in there. Of course my comments are more along the line of: I never want to go through US airport security with you; my husband’s Indian and the whole “brown person” thing is something TSA hasn’t figured out how to handle with any level of decent human courtesy. (I have a big mouth with no internal editor- I’ve nearly been pulled out of line and arrested for telling TSA agents that they’re jackasses.)
LOL! Thanks for coming by, yep some of those airport guys can be overzealous officious gits I imagine … my strategy is to imagine something I love (the globe between the ears is the most important space they can’t reach) and smile sweetly. Otherwise I too am prone to be …. direct.
i’ve got one– oh you’re Egyptian? your feminists are awesome and thanks for inventing journalism!
:)
:D