“The vote is precious. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society, and we must use it.”
– John Lewis – late civil rights activist and US House of Representative – GA
(This is my take on the Palo Alto City Library’s voting graphic.)
If you haven’t already voted, either by absentee or in-person early voting, please schedule time tomorrow to visit the polls and cast your ballot.
“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interest to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don’t bullshit yourself that you’re not voting. In reality, there’s no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.”
– David Foster Wallace – Up, Simba!
This Vote image is a riff on Robert Indiana’s Love image, postage stamp and sculptures.
“We are not helpless. The fire is still burning. Please go out and vote this November. Too many people have died and sacrificed so much for us to have our voice, we have to use it. Get in formation. Use our voices to do something great for our children.”
– Beyoncé
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
– Henry David Thoreau
Nourish your eye and spirit with inspiring things. They will bloom with your tending.
– Sark
Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day?
Both.
At the center of the
universe dwells the
Great Spirit. And that
center is really everywhere.
It is within each of us.
– Heĥáka Sápa
Black Elk
Oglala Lakota
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
– Marcel Proust
A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of fauna and flora of a town.
– Henry David Thoreau
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
– Henry David Thoreau
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
– Albert Camus
Each moment of the year has its own beauty… a picture which was never seen before and which shall never be seen again.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dana Burrell... Art 