The Russian Ambassador Get Shot. The Gunman Wail a Manifesto. The Truck That Crashed Through a Berlin Christmas Market. Syrian Evacuation Buses Catch Fire. The Suicide Attack in Yemen. Gunmen Kill Afghan Airport Workers. The Car Bomb Kill 13 in Turkey. ‘Aleppo is now a synonym for hell.’ The Eiffel Tower Go Dark. Countries Declare Solidarity. Japan and Russia Fight over Land. China Urge the United States to Stay True. The Holes In Our Global Consciousness Widen. Our Consciousness Needing More Light.
the everyday work of being yourself
What will you sacrifice to be what you feel pressure to be? Will you give up your freedom to acquire what you need? If money can’t buy happiness, why do we behave as if it could? Here’s a nice bag. Here are some nice shoes. Pretend as if you own them. Forget that they own you.
when i was a little girl, women used to me if i wanted to be a model. but before they could ask me, they asked my mom if i was, and why not. it was never my choice
to feel insecure. Is it yours? Is it your choice to feel loved? When you wake up in the morning, who do you see? Someone who is trying or choosing to be? either way it’s work, believe me.
“Make America Gay Again”
A leader is made up of parts. The parts make up the leader, but a single part is not the leader, nor several parts together. A leader is what appears in a brief moment when all the parts are joined and working. We want to see all of its parts joined and working. We want to give that harmony a name. Claim it. Remind us of our home.
Photo taken by Tomas Maccio. Tomas is visual artist and local environmental activist. He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. He lives in the quaint, progressive-thinking Hudson River village of Nyack, NY.
“WHY JESUS CHRIST WAS A CARPENTER,” and not a corporate CEO
by Anonymous
“COULD YOU PICTURE JESUS CHRIST WORKING ON WALL STREET, OR HOW ABOUT FOR A LARGE TELECOM DEAL THAT WANTS TO MERGE AND TAKE OVER THE WORLD, MAKE THE CEO RICH? OR HOW ABOUT PHARMACEUTICALS, YEAH, JESUS CHRIST WANNA MAKE XANAX, YEAH, JESUS CHRIST WANNA MAKE THAT STUFF THAT MAKES PEOPLE ADDICTED TO HEROIN, OR HOW ABOUT HOSPITALS? JESUS CHRIST’S MAJOR GOAL: CUT DOWN ON THE RATIO, BE PROFITABLE! YES, PROFITABLE! WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO JESUS CHRIST? THIS IS WHY I LOSE ALL MY JOBS, BUT I’M NOT GOING ON NO CROSS. IF YOU GOT A HEART, AND YOU’RE HONEST, AND YOU’RE TRUTHFUL, HOW COULD YOU KEEP A JOB IN CORPORATE AMERICA?”
Where Do We Go Now?
What would it be like to not follow the media? What would it be like to step back from the madness it has packaged as “story”? “Consumption is the medium that can poison or palliate the human narrative,” writes Denis A. Conroy. “Propaganda can be as powerful as the narcotics that assuage the pain of alienation, so prevalent now among people devoid of meaningful voice or purpose.” We have no choice but to create our own meaning, our own purpose. Its message must be separate from all others. We cannot fall under the spell of delusion. Disinformation has been disseminated by media outlets to fulfill an ulterior motive. We cannot be as upset when we see that this was their purpose, because whether it was fulfilled or not, we still have our true nature. We still have our peace of mind. Disengage, dis-identify, with the media machine. Ignite change from the ground up. The media built us up and broke us down. It showed us what we’re made of, and what we can build now without it.
All we know is what we’re made of.
Is The Message 