people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.
There is nothing I have regretted more deeply or repeatedly than my decision to take out outrageous student loans to pursue a liberal arts degree instead of going to trade school to learn an in-demand career skill by participating in a paid apprenticeship to a master necromancer.
“people deserve to feel safe in their own city” yes! obviously! and “people” includes those made to live perilous lives due to an ever diminishing safety net and increasingly open social derision and viciousness
Kyiv regional authorities covered four of British street artist #Banksy's artworks in protective glass and set up guards to prevent future looting after a few attempted to steal one last December.
There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.