... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.

Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.

The only real nation is humanity

And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others', and the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.

I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.