“1,000 cows in the U.S. are alive at night and dead in the morning. These cows on the ground are ground into feed, making their fellows not only carnivores but cannibals. Europe after Mad Cows' Disease has banned this practice. The U.S has not yet.” NightPracticeMorningAliveDiseaseEuropeFellowsMadCowsBannedCannibalCarnivoresMad Cow Disease Author:Howard Lyman
“Once upon a time there was a bear and a bee who lived in a wood and were the best of friends. All summer long the bee collected nectar from morning to night while the bear lay on his back basking in the long grass. When winter came the bear realised he had nothing to eat and thought to himself 'I hope that busy little bee will share some of his honey with me.' But the bee was nowhere to be found - he had died of a stress induced coronary disease.” LittlesLongNightFoundMorningShareBearsDiseaseSummerStressDiedLaysWinterBusyWoodsGrassHoneyBeesRealisedOnce Upon A TimeNectarWall And PieceBaskingLittle BeeLong Grass Author:Banksy
“I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal complicities to the grave because it so deeply ensconced in how I look at the world. Therefore, very much like alcoholism, drug addiction, or racism patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.” WorldLooksCultureBlackMorningStruggleDoubtGrewDrugDiseaseGrew UpRacismAddictionGravesTraditionalRecoveryGet UpNo DoubtUnconsciousEvery MorningPatriarchyAlcoholismDrug AddictionComplicityRelapse Book:Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life Source: Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
“It's a weird smile, but it reaches his eyes and I bottle it. And I put it in my ammo pack that's kept right next to my soul and Justine's spirit and Siobhan's hope and Tara's passions. Because if I'm going to wake up one morning and not be able to get out of bed, I'm going to need everything I've got to fight this disease that could be sleeping inside of me.” IfsNeedsSoulEyeAbleSpiritFightingPassionNextSleepMorningBedDiseaseWake UpMy SoulHis EyesBottlesPacksAmmoJustineSaving Francesca Book:Saving Francesca Source: Saving Francesca
“Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at Princeton and a relationship with Blaine - "You are the absolute love of my life," he'd written in her last birthday card - and yet there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.” WellsSoulLastsDesireMorningWrittenMonthsDiseaseUniqueAbsolutesCardsImaginaryEarningFatigueFellowshipBlogsVisitorsFeesCementEarly MorningHomesicknessPiercingsLove Of My LifePrincetonBirthday CardEach MonthAbsolute Love Book:Americanah Source: Americanah
“If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don’t — if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live — well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease. We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help.” IfsThinkingNeedsWellsHelpingEyePainMovingSufferingCultureWaitingLossGriefMorningBearsLetting GoDiseaseBurdenWitnessMourningCheerLive WellCheer UpBeing SadAvert Author:Cheryl Strayed
“...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.” SoulDesireMorningMonthsDiseaseImaginaryFatigueCementEarly MorningHomesicknessPiercings Book:Americanah Source: Americanah