Hope in a Darkening Age... news, comment, arts, ecology, wisdom, obsessions, the past, the future... "THE END OF ALL INTELLIGENT ANALYSIS IS TO CLEAR THE WAY FOR SYNTHESIS."--H.G. Wells. "It's always a leap into the unknown future to write anything."--Margaret Atwood "Be kind, be useful, be fearless."--President Barack Obama.
"One of the first things I noticed when I came back was that everybody talked a little too fast, and they took too much for granted."
Gary Snyder, recalling his return to the US in the 1960s from living in a Buddhist monastery in Japan.
