Wordsworth, The Prelude Book II.(1850 text):
for I would walk alone,
Under the quiet stars, and at that time
Have felt whate'er there is of power in sound
To breathe an elevated mood, by form
Or image unprofaned; and I would stand,
If the night blackened with a coming storm,
Beneath some rock, listening to notes that are
The ghostly language of the ancient earth,
Or make their dim abode in distant winds.
Thence did I drink the visionary power;
And deem not profitless those fleeting moods
Of shadowy exultation: not for this,
That they are kindred to our purer mind
And intellectual life; but that the soul,
Remembering how she felt, but what she felt
Remembering not, retains an obscure sense
Of possible sublimity, whereto
With growing faculties she doth aspire,
With faculties still growing, feeling still 320
That whatsoever point they gain, they yet
Have something to pursue.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Monday, November 21, 2011
Occupy Oakland: Arresting Public Meditators Beats Out Education as a Budget Priority Every Time:
Arrested Meditators: Francisco Ramos Stierle ("Pancho"--on right in white shirt) has this to say about our civic priorities: (click photo for link to full story)
As Pancho said in a statement from jail:
“When the city of Oakland decided to raid Occupy Oakland, it spent around $2 million dollars to do it. On the same day, Oakland closed five public schools. This is the same thing happening across the country. We do not have an economic crisis, we have a crisis of priorities.”
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