the daily asterisk

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it…

Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely live, a place where saints and children tell how hearts learn…

Life is not possible without an opening toward the transcendent; in other words, human beings cannot live in chaos. Once contact with the transcendent…

We heard health care and we thought public option we thought reaching across the street across the lines across the aisle was the manifestation…

In belonging to a landscape, one feels a rightness, at-homeness, a knitting of self and world. This condition of clarity and focus, this being…

The very design of the suburbs inhibited the gathering of citizens who might want to mount a protest. Instead of broad parks at the…

Celebration is when we let joy make itself out of our love. We like to be together. We like to dance together. We like…

There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If…

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. Touchstone in William Shakespeare’s As You Like It

Knowing who we are and knowing where we are are intimately linked. Gary Snyder qtd. in Shaping the Sierra