Human beings suffer,
They torture one another,
They get hurt and get hard.
No poem or play or song
Can fully right a wrong
Inflicted and endured
History says, don’t hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracle
And cures and healing wells.
Call miracle self-healing:
The utter, self-revealing
Double-take of feeling.
If there’s fire on the mountain
Or lightning and storm
And a god speaks from the sky
That means someone is hearing
The outcry and the birth-cry
of new life at its term.
“It has always seemed strange to me,” said Doc. “The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
new from @micahh.bsky.social and me: the coming years will test our resilience, but they will also offer chances to sharpen our strategies, deepen our solidarity, and expand our collective power. we must anticipate repression, and develop strategies to weather the storm.
I like the idea but re: running the business at a loss to ensure minimum tax liability, my recollection is that if a company/entity reports losses for too many years, the IRS considers it a hobby, where gross income = net income where taxes are concerned.
But I’m no tax expert & neither was the person who told me this. (The context of that discussion was why Ft. Worth’s Caravan of Dreams got less adventurous with its booking policy, so his explanation made sense.)
Whichever way has its ducks in a better row, I guess?
