by Harvey Lillywhite I, a small protest movement against unfairness and injustice, one of the 2,818 occupy communities worldwide, inspired by the Spanish Indignants and Arab Spring (American Spring?), but completely ignored by Adbusters, irrelevant to everyone but me, have decided, at last, to occupy ground zero: myself. Halfway stuck in the sucking analog quicksand of the … [Read more...] about Occupy, Yourself!
Harvey Lillywhite.
Prisoners of the Splendour.
by Harvey Lillywhite.Henry Beston (June 1, 1888 – April 15, 1968—an American writer and naturalist, best known for The Outermost House, written in 1925) said something about us animals that I find remarkable:We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals... In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, … [Read more...] about Prisoners of the Splendour.
Chronological Order.
by Harvey Lillywhite I wish I didn’t have to live my life in chronological order. I want to go back to the small bedroom I had in high school on the corner of the small house my step-father built out of bricks with his own two hands. When he married my Mom and added the new piece to his house, he asked … [Read more...] about Chronological Order.
Wrestling with Grace.
by Harvey LillywhiteAlong the east coast of the U.S. in the early fall, tropical storms surge up from the south and pour lots of rain on us. Today, for instance, we’re in the middle of getting what’s forecast to be 5 to 6 inches of rain. As I stand with my front door open, the rain is heavy and the breeze freighted with tropical warmth. The leaves on the huge tulip … [Read more...] about Wrestling with Grace.
The Flowers of Evil?
by Harvey LillywhiteWhat unreasonable thing can I say about the Devil aimed straight at the heart? My regard for D’Evil, the forbidden, the dark side, an impulse to peek at the victim of the big night car crash on the freeway with police, the fire engines, chaos of blue and red flashing lights—secretly I wish to see a head or bloody body—this nosiness is … [Read more...] about The Flowers of Evil?