MEDIA DIET: Utne Reader July/August 2000 pp. 102-103 "We tend to think wildly. Our problem is that we identify with the thoughts and never just stop and watch what's going on." -- Natalie Goldberg Natalie Goldberg has spent much of her creative energy [...]

``` if there is anyone to remember this time will be remembered we will be judged rightly for what we did not do i saw it once in a waking dream seven years ago the river's region from above vast all brown and dry burnt by drought and fire we wept [...]

By William Stafford ``` If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the __world and following the wrong god home we may miss __our star: For there is many a small [...]

[Steve Lewis] ART ON THE OTHER SIDE: A SONNET “The hope is that if you live through it, there will be art on the other side,” —Louise Glück When we learn there is no art on this side of the river, just smooth talkin’ tv jive about miracle drugs, sweet [...]

- A collection of thoughts, observations, and opinions about Zeitgeist in my own mind and perhaps outside it. Wendy Brown (p. 104): "Most young people are in a mode of pre-apocalyptic survivalism, as are we all to some extent."[^1] / in Brown's [...]