a little bit of Uh Huh and a whole lot of Oh Yeah

Watch out for music. It should come with a health warning. It can be very dangerous. It can make you feel so alive, so connected to the people around you, connected to what you are inside. It will make you think that the world should and could be a better place. And occasionally it will make you very, very happy.

In Rotation: February 2014

If it is important for us to speak and vote our convictions in matters of internal policy, though we may unfortunately be in disagreement with the President, it is infinitely more important for us to speak and vote our convictions when the question is one of peace or war, certain to involve the lives and fortunes of many of our people and, it may be, the destiny of all of them and of the civilized world as well.

Oh, hai Tumblr.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

People don't see any way out of what's going on economically or politically -- not just in Russia but all over the world. But artists have recognised there is a way out and it's that we begin to realise the problem is spiritual, not economical or political. When we recognise that, we can begin to claw our way back to a world as it was intended by its creator to be. Caring and compassionate.