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It's all right not to believe in luck and good omens. Nobody believes them. But it doesn't do any good to take chances with them and no one takes chances.

— John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

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Come revisit some fun chapters in John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row and consider what they say about the nature of home and shelter.

“It leads us to some good questions: do we think we have a right to make a home, even if it doesn’t conform to middle-class housing standards? The Malloys have found and made shelter, and the iron walls of the boiler are no tent. If you were a city official, would you force them out? Why?

And what about the gophers? The right to be, the right to a habitat, the right to be a habitat—our need for shelter is bound up with the broader push for the ability of any living thing, be it a person or a river, to exist for its own sake, and not that of capital-centered economy. But what might it look like to realize those rights?”

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mary oliver

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Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Abiah Root (May 1848)

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“The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.”

— Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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“There are a few great souls in my life. They are not many. They are few. You are one.”

— Ann Sexton

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Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

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People gathered around lava, Iceland.

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it’s 1981 and you’re in the city getting chased by corrupt cops👮🏻‍♂️

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