“Then she said, “You go on. You just go on. There’s nothing more to it, and there’s no trick to make…”

Thursday, October 13th, 2016

“Then she said, “You go on. You just go on. There’s nothing more to it, and there’s no trick to make it easier. You just go on.”
“What do you find on the other side? When you go on?”
She shrugged. “Your life again. What else?”
“Is that a promise?”
She picked up a pebble, fingered it, and tossed it into the water. The moon-lines bloomed and danced. “It’s an inevitability. No trick. No choice. You just go on.””

– Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory (via ladyherenya)

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“We are in an age of climate change and mass extinction and much of this is irreversible. This is…”

Thursday, July 24th, 2014

“We are in an age of climate change and mass extinction and much of this is irreversible. This is what we were given to live through. To be able to look at what the human machine is doing to this living world without feeling grief or despair is an impossibility for anyone who experiences normal human emotions. Grief is not only a natural reaction to the state of the world today, it is a useful one. It is something that should be navigated and understood and accepted and discussed. Like the death of a loved one, the current death of much that is good in the world is something that can’t be denied or wished away: it has to be lived with. It doesn’t follow from that that nothing good will ever happen again, or that you can be of no use in the world.”

– paulkingsnorth, Five years on a Mountain

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