Familiaris

by David Wroblewski

Practical Agriculture and Free Will, whose author, George Solomon Drencher,

“All human endeavor,” Drencher opened, “begins with the planting of a seed, and all human profit is the reaping of a harvest. We are every one farmers, no matter our worldly occupation. By this I mean: imperialists, conquerors, butchers, and tyrants.”

“It is your first and last duty in this life,” he wrote, “not to be an idiot.”

“there are times you need a roof, and there are times you need a road.”

what if this is the kind of door that only swings in one direction?” “They all are. But there are other doors.” “Doors we won’t see until we go through this one.”

candy-ass people find candy-ass ways to express their opinions—now there was a truth waiting to be engraved over some library’s entrance.

you’ll never figure out a mystery by walking away from it.”

‘It is your first and last duty in this life not to be an idiot.’

It doesn’t feel like you’re gone, sometimes. Sometimes all I can feel is that you’re gone.

suppose you could do one impossible thing.