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The future says: Dear mortals; I know you are busy with your colourful lives; I have no wish to waste the little time that remains On arguments and heated debates; But before I can appear Please, close your eyes, sit still And listen carefully To what I am about to say; I haven't happened yet, but I will. I can't pretend it's going to be Business as usual. Things are going to change. I'm going to be unrecognisable. Please, don't open your eyes, not yet. I'm not trying to frighten you. All I ask is that you think of me Not as a wish or a nightmare, but as a story You have to tell yourselves - Not with an ending In which everyone lives happily ever after, Or a B-movie apocalypse, But maybe starting with the line 'To be continued...' And see what happens next. Remember this; I am not Written in stone But in time - So please don't shrug and say What can we do? It's too late, etc, etc, etc. Dear mortals, You are such strange creatures With your greed and your kindness, And your hearts like broken toys; You carry fear with you everywhere Like a tiny god In its box of shadows. You love festivals and music And good food. You lie to yourselves Because you're afraid of the dark. But the truth is: you are in my hands And I am in yours. We are in this together, Face to face and eye to eye; We're made for each other. Now those of you who are still here; Open your eyes and tell me what you see. ↗

— Nick Drake

#climate-change #future #high-arctic #poetry #business

Every relationship is a tug of war, and I hope the scaffold wins. ↗

— Bauvard

#hanging #humor #power #relationships #tug-of-war

I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you've done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#displays-of-kindness #food #food

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner. ↗

— Sophia Loren

#cleaner #eaten #i can #inhale #like

Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all. ↗

— Olaf Stapledon

#food

Medicine is not a science; it is empiricism founded on a network of blunders. ↗

— Emmet Densmore

#medicine #pharmacy #food

Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius." pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss ↗

— Heather Brewer

#henry #humor #joss #tacos #vampire

If you’re hungry, eat one of my new starvation pills. They taste like silence.
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— Jarod Kintz

#food #hunger #hungry #silence #silent

Sometimes... the first step to forgiveness is realizing that the other person... is batshit crazy. ↗

— Michelle Bartlett

#forgiveness #humor #forgiveness

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it. ↗

— Joel Salatin

#food-security #responsibility #food