Potatoes from the Root Cellar

"Creation: respect it! Our animal kingdom: embrace it! Remember: we are all made in His image. Walk in love and never forget you are not the Judge." -- told to me by a lovely tech when I was having a breast biopsy

(I copied this from somewhere. I hope it's accurate.) Elon Musk was mad at Apple because they weren’t advertising so much anymore. “Don’t they appreciate free speech?” To which Colbert replied: "Elon, Elon, Elon," tutted Colbert. "Free speech means the government can't tell you what to say. It doesn't mean people have to give you money no matter what you say. I know you're mad at them, but they don't hate free speech. They're mad at you because you freed hate speech."

In A Walk on the Wild Side (1956), set in the world of pimps and prostitutes in New Orleans, Algren gives his three rules for life: "Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own." The novel is, in many ways, about the contempt of a nation for its dispossessed, and in it he wrote: "When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ou

After her book, Flight Behavior, which deals with climate change, a reviewer asked Barbara Kingsolver how she could be so optimistic. She answered this way: “I’m a hopeful person, though not necessarily optimistic . . . . The pessimist would say, ‘Oh it’s going to be a terrible winter; we’re all going to die.’ The optimist would say, ‘Oh, it’s going to be all right; I don’t think it’ll be that bad.’ The hopeful person would say, ‘Maybe someone’s going to be alive in February