revelation and equally weighty mystery

heroism

shaun rust — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:09:12 +0000

“The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

the choices we have to make

shaun rust — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:03:32 +0000

with purpose or adrift
joy or fear
hope or despair
humor or sadness
positive or negative outlook
pride or shame
inspiration or defeat
creative or indifferent
honor or dishonor

come on.

shaun rust — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:57:43 +0000

oh dear.

shaun rust — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:55:19 +0000

rascals

shaun rust — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:24:29 +0000

death and consumption

shaun rust — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:03:35 +0000

“Our enormously productive economy…demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption…. We need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate.”

~Victor Lebow, shortly after WWII
taken from “The Story of Stuff”