Monday, November 28, 2022

Freedom


Freedom is not following a river.
 Freedom is following a river, 
  though, if you want to. 
 It is deciding now by what happens now.
 It is knowing that luck makes a difference.

 No leader is free, no follower is free—
   the rest of us can often be free.
 Most of the world are living by
 creeds too odd, chancy, and habit-forming
   to be worth arguing about by reason.

 If you are oppressed, wake up about
 four in the morning; most places,
 you can usually be free some of the time
 if you wake up before other people.

--William Stafford

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