kengr: (Default)
“Tiffany, do you hear that?” She asked, staring intently into my eyes with a finger resting against her chin as if she were simultaneously deep in thought.

“Hear…what?” I asked. I listened, the area around us was actually pretty quiet. “I don’t hear…anything.”

“Oh!” She said. “It’s that tree over there! It’s lamenting the fact that it had to burst forth from a seed, survive life as a sapling in this cruel, unforgiving world, and managed to defy the odds, growing into a huge oak tree just so it could provide oxygen for your mentally deficient self.”

From Woodcrest #2: Dramatic Aspirations Epilogue
kengr: (antenna girl)
leatherjacketsknitsweaters
able bodied people are so inspirational. y’all just. go for long walks in the park. and wear pants all day long. and do the dishes all at once. i just. i don’t know how y’all do it. i’m tearing up just thinking about it. y’all are so brave.
For those who don't get the sarcasm, this is the sort of thing disabled folks hear from the able *every damn day*.
kengr: (seperation of church & hate)
Monotheism, someone has said, offers two simple axioms:
1) There is a God.
2) It's not you.
kengr: (antenna girl)
While reading some stuff in a Fidonet echo, I came across this:

In the 1960s, a student at Harvard Law School addressed parents and alumni with these words:

The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might. And the republic is in danger. Yes! danger from within and without. We need law and order! Without law and order our nation cannot survive.


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