What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the most fundamental and most pervasive in all the ensuing changes is the loss of faith in authority: the authority of government, of science, of patriarchy, of progress, of capitalism, of violence, of whiteness.

We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.

In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation and trivialization to feel engaged, connected, purposeful, ready to give, to engage, to care, to learn.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.

Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.