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Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay.
Want more of everything ready-made.
Be afraid
to know your neighbors
and to die.

And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
anymore.
Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away
in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you to die
for profit
they will let you know.
So, friends, every day do something
that won't compute.

Love the Lord.
Love the world.
Work for nothing.
Take all that you have
and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the government
and embrace the flag.
Hope to live
in that free republic
for which it stands.
Give your approval
to all you cannot understand.
Praise ignorance,
for what man has not encountered
he has not destroyed.

Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium.
Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit.
Prophesy such returns.

Put your faith in the two inches of humus
that will build under the trees every thousand years.
Listen to carrion
put your ear close, and hear the faint chattering
of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world.
Laugh.

Laughter is immeasurable.
Be joyful
though you have considered all the facts.
So long as women do not go cheap
for power,
please women more than men.
Ask yourself: Will this satisfy
a woman satisfied to bear a child?
Will this disturb the sleep
of a woman near to giving birth?

Go with your love to the fields.
Lie down in the shade.
Rest your head
in her lap.
Swear allegiance
to what is nighest your thoughts.
As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind;
lose it.
Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail,
the way you didn't go.
Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.

Practice resurrection.







Though I can not say it or be as inspiring as Wendell Berry, I think that what he says makes so much perfect sense. Trying to understand all of his concepts at once might be a little much, but I think that what he says is amazingly true. One day, I hope I can share the wisdom I have gained with the rest of the world in just as beautiful of a way. Someday...

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THE 100 WORK CHALLENGE:<

The List

1. Introduction: [link]
2. Love: (I do)
3. Light:
4. Dark:
5. Seeking Solace:
6. Break Away:
7. Heaven:
8. Innocence:
9. Drive:
10. Breathe Again: (Breathe no more)
11. Memory:
12. Insanity:
13. Misfortune:
14. Smile:
15. Silence:
16. Questioning:
17. Blood:
18. Rainbow:
19. Gary:
20. Fortitude:
21. Vacation:
22. Mother Nature:
23. Embrace:
24. No Time Left: (It's All Over)
25. Trouble Lurking:
26. Tears:
27. Foreign:
28. Sorrow:
29. Happiness:
30. In The Rain:
31. Flowers:
32. Night:
33. Expectations:
34. Stars (come with me):
35. Hold My Hand:
36. Precious Treasure:
37. Eyes:
38. Abandoned:
39. Dreams: (All lost, I Once had dreams)
40. Embarrassing:
41. Teamwork:
42. Standing Still:
43. Dying:
44. Two Roads:
45. Illusion:
46. Family:
47. Creation:
48. Childhood: (Slipped Too Quickly and Far Away From Here, where I am)
49. Ribbons:
50. Breaking The Rules:
51. Sour:
52. Deep In Thought:
53. Secret:
54. Tower:
55. Waiting:
56. Danger:
57. Sacrifice: (For You)
58. Kick In The Head:
59. No Way Out:
60. Rejection:
61. Fairy Tale:
62. Magic:
63. Do Not Disturb: (Feeling Y-Iffy)
64. Multitasking:
65. Horror:
66. Trapped:
67. Playing The Melody:
68. Hero:
69. Annoyance:
70. 67 %:
71. Obsession:
72. Stare:
73. I Can't:
74. Are You Challenging Me?:
75. Mirror:
76. Broken Pieces: (shattered)
77. Test:
78. Drunk:
79. Starvation:
80. Words: (Just Words)
81. Pen and Paper: (Thankful For All These Blank Pages, New Beginnings)
82. Can You Hear Me?:
83. Heal:
84. Snow:
85. Spiral:
86. Seeing Red:
87. Cooking:
88. Pain:
89. Through The Fire and The Flames:
90. Triangle:
91. Drowning:
92. All That I Have:
93. Give Up:
94. Last Hope:
95. Warmth:
96. In The Strom: (The Eye)
97. Safety First:
98. Puzzle: (little pieces) (JF Plays Puzzle Quest)
99. Solitude:
100. Relaxation: (Here With You, At Last)


ART OWED:

Art for myself

-Chapter 1: Heartbreak Cafe
-Art ADD: JF Braver
-Art ADD: The Bridge
-Art ADD: Falling
-Art ADD: Thinking of You
-"I Wants Uh Cookie!!" Issue #1
-***A few special surprises


Art for Jf

-Driftback Part 3: Front Cover, Back cover and interlude page

Art for Becky
-Spring poem
-Furuba spring picture

Art for Penny
-"What is love?" w/ poem

Thanks for reading! Sorry if I offend you, it is an honest mistake. And remember (though THIS is probably the most offensive part of my journal):

*Orange juice is NOT a type of sex:
*4Chan is not 4Kids:
*Milkshakes were better back then:
*Pokemon ARE real:
*So is the devil.I've had his foodcake:
*The people who finish their education are the smartest of us all:
*Wait, so smoking ISN'T a bad thing? "The average smoker needs over 5000 cigarettes a year. Get unhooked.": [link]
*Where is your God now? : [link]


Yours truly,
~~K. St.Germaine