"it's one am and I'm wide awake / too hot for sleeping / those wheels keep spinning round"

The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone with everything is to succumb to violence. More than that, it is cooperation with violence. The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his or her work for peace. It destroys her or his capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of the work because it kills the root of inner wisdom, which makes the work fruitful.

— Thomas Merton, in "Letter to a Young Activist," 1966

Commentary on passages from "Letter to a Young Activist" by its recipient.

Ambient 3: Day of Radiance (YT link to full album) just may be my favorite Brian Eno record. The dulcimer is a godo part of this.

A collection of snowfall timelapses.

---L.

Subject quote from "Long Hot Night," John Coinman.