Jack Henry Kraven

“Do something again and again,
you build a practice, whether
it is a practice
of celebration
or destruction
of glorious simplicity or of simplicity
that numbs,
of complexity that challenges and grows you,
or complexity
that stultifies.”
― Shellen Lubin

“It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Western society was on the verge of discovering that a radical materialism could breed horrors far greater than even the worst religious fanaticism”
― David Bentley Hart, The Story of Christianity: A History of 2000 Years of the Christian Faith

“When Hitler became chancellor in 1933, he claimed that Germany was the successor to the Holy Roman Empire that had dominated Central Europe for a thousand years. These leaders believed that their new system would reclaim the past with the ideology of the future, welding pure men into a military and social machine that moved all as one, while pure women supported society as mothers. They set out to eliminate those who didn’t fit their model and to destroy the messy, inefficient democracy that stood in their way.”
― Heather Cox Richardson, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America