love must be learned

A simple but ever so hard truth from American short-story writer and novelist, Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980).

why are you doing this?

Sometimes, I wonder. Usually, though, the reason is very clear to me. We’re killing each other and we’re killing our planet.  Whether it is by slowly poisoning ourselves with chemicals or shooting one other, whether it is by extracting carbon from the earth and spewing it into the atmosphere or spilling millions of miniscule plastic balls […]