Howard Zinn (RIP Jan 27, 2010)

"To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.


What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something.


If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.


And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

just 3 miles from the rest stop

w h i l e   you  were   s l e e p i n g
i was listening to the radio & wondering what you're dreaming when--

it came to mind that i didn't care.

&i thought: HELL, if it's over,
well, i had better end it quick or i could lose my nerve--

are you listening?

can you hear me?

(have you forgotten?)

"Either Way"

i will love you forever-- (but forever'sSOfaraway)
but i promised i would; through all the BADS and the goods; and, hell, the bads are still GOODS anyway.

& i will love you always.

(there's nothingleftforMEto say--
'tilthecowscomebackhome,ORjump over themoon;'tilthedishes&spoonsallRUNaway)

i willLOVEyoueitherway.


i will love you always;


i   will love you ,
e i t h e r  w a y.

"All Hell For A Basement"

i have LOST my way,
but   i   hear    t e l l
about a heaven in Alberta. . .

Jimmy Eat World -- Dizzy

i TOLD you as i hovered; i never felt this way.

YOU said,
"i  have the SHOT
thatstopsmy clock,
baby ,    it's okay."

youSAID you'd never have regrets;
Jesus, is there someone yet
who got their wish?

did you get yours, babe?

3 Doors Down

The open wound she hides: she just
keeps it bundledup &neverlets itSHOW.
sheCAN'Ttake muchmoreof this -- but she can't let it go.
That's okay. She don't want the world.

All the things she says, while he's just

lying there withoutsomeoneto hear herCRY,

she slipsoff into a dream about a place

to hide... and that's ok. She don't want the world.

This  l o v e  she feels--

everything she's ever known,
   or ever thought was real--

seems like it's been thrown away.

Now how's she gonna live?

It's okay; she don't want the world.

thoseWORDSheneverspoke
haunt her life,thememoriesof all
the timesbefore: she tried to show
him love while he would only ask
for more. But it's ok, she don't want the world.

Softly in her sleep...

pictures of the life she's longing for slowly appear.

She's seen them all before, but somehow never quite this clear...

And she just smiles;

she don't want the world.

and in between dreams..

If I knew all of the answers, I would not hold them from you;
You'd know all of the things that I know.

'cause we told each other
there  is  no other way...

.belong

[3 Doors Down]

" i don't know why i gave you my heart

 because sometimes it feels so wrong.

(but inSPITEofallthisweatherI
knowwhywearetogether)

&i swear right now i'm- "

.where i

"...there's too many questions and too many strings

and they won't keep themselves tied.

On arollercoasterride;

itfeelslikeI'mLYING

nexttoaGHOSTatnight..."

.right

" There's a difference in spending time with me

  and killing time while I'm there.

On too many people & too many things,

and it makes me feel like HELL..."

(what are you hoping for?)

" No one else will have me like you do;
       no one else will have me, only you. "

                                             -- 23

Matchbox 20

the cars are moving like a half an mile an hour &i
staring at the passengers who're wavin' goodbye--


can you tell me what was every really special about me all this time?

I was no longer brave;

My avarice cooled,
like lust in the chill of the grave.

-- Hamatreya

well, you know what?

" A goal without a plan is just a wish. "

&breathe

"3AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake:

'Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?

I don't love him; winter just wasn't my season.'"

If You Only Knew

"it's 4:03

and I can't sleep

without you next to me;

I toss and turn like the sea."

"There For You"

You speak the unspeakable through

" i love you, too. "

"Change The World"

"Can't say for sure just where I'll end up;

I just want to end up there with you."