the republican at the booth usually only gave away the little flags to small children, but since i was european he made an exception for me. at the end of the evening it started to show the first signs of unraveling.

“What we would like to do is change the world - make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do… We can, to a certain extent, change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. We repeat, there is nothing that we can do but love, and, dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.”
— Dorothy Day

i then realised i had forgotten about my fear of heights

the rapid and intense questioning i underwent at subway took me back to the time when the american border people kept yelling at me

Er was een trein
Waar ik in zat
Waarin ik rust vond
Rust van de mensen
Rust in mezelf
Rust door het land waar we langs
Er was een trein
Waar ik in zat

Eefje de Visser

“oh i know where that is. it’s where peter pan is from”

somehow i stumbled into conversation with the deputy of a local department of the communist party of the USA. he was in new york for national meetings because his fellow comrade wasn’t able to change his amazon shift around.

the thing is, there are a lot of people out there that can a bit of a jerk at times

“The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

this would have never happened before my undramatic conversion into nondogmatic veganism

is there a lonelier feeling than that of an empty disinfectant dispenser at the end of a long empty echoing hallway?

but what is the good meaning non dogmatic vegan to do when his bike got bird pooped all over as he is running late in the morning

as i walked away from the interaction, his last words did not let go of me. ‘take it easy’, he had urged me

come by and i will make you a smoothie