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“The world is burning, and there is no time to put down the water buckets. For just an hour, put down the water buckets anyway. Take your cue from the bluebirds, who have no faith in the future but who build the future nevertheless, leaf by leaf and straw by straw, shaping them into the roundness of the world…
…this is what the world does best. New life. Rebirth. The greenness that rises out of ashes.”
— Jan 17, 2026 08:51AM
…this is what the world does best. New life. Rebirth. The greenness that rises out of ashes.”
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“The world will always be beautiful to those who look for beauty…
Apocalyptic stories always get the apocalypse wrong. The tragedy is not the failed world's barren ugliness. The tragedy is its clinging beauty even as it fails. Until the very last cricket falls silent, the beauty-besotted will find a reason to love the world.”
— Jan 17, 2026 09:13AM
Apocalyptic stories always get the apocalypse wrong. The tragedy is not the failed world's barren ugliness. The tragedy is its clinging beauty even as it fails. Until the very last cricket falls silent, the beauty-besotted will find a reason to love the world.”

