Jason Hackwith

“A man is never so ridiculous by those qualities that are his own as by those that he affects to have.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“He that won’t be counselled, can’t be helped.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Now, the linden, it turns out, is a radical tree, as different from an oak as a woman is from a man. It's the bee tree, the tree of peace, whose tonics and teas can cure every kind of tension and anxiety - a tree that cannot mistaken for any other, for alone in all the catalog of a hundred thousand earthly species, its flowers and tiny hard fruit hand down from surfboard bracts whose sole perserve purpose seems to be to state its own singularity. The lindens will come for her, starting with this ambush. But the full adoption will take years.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory