healing art

He healed before the scars could remember where to leave their marks.

scary stuff

You live on earth, and yet the religious try to frighten you with their stories of hell.

things at hand

We take our omens where we can find them.

utopia undone

What is human ruins the ideal commune.

heliocentric heresy

Our sun but a little night light in the universe.

focal point

Remember your power is concentrated in that corner they backed you into.

fall open

Our arms seem to open widest when we’re falling.

easy to turn

The contrarian proposes nothing.

facedeck

Shuffle the faces.

memory in the middle

Experience forms memory and memory shapes experience.

word became flesh

The image was only words in the moment it became experience.

only moment to moment

Experience is nothing without memory.

just an ankle bracelet

He’d led a charmed life on the chain gang.

no one thing

It’s a mistake to talk of Americans as though one people, or to speak of the USA as though one country. We the people: Are many peoples and many notions of a nation, uneasily held together.