Forest Books

04/03/2025

Beware. Be aware.

03/26/2025

"Thoreau was a surprising fellow — he is not easily grasped — is elusive: yet he is one of the native forces — stands for a fact, a movement, an upheaval: Thoreau belongs to America, to the transcendental, to the protestors: then he is an outdoor man: all outdoor men everything else being equal appeal to me.
"Thoreau was not so precious, tender, a personality as Emerson: but he was a force — he looms up bigger and bigger: his dying does not seem to have hurt him a bit: every year has added to his fame. One thing about Thoreau keeps him very near to me: I refer to his lawlessness — his dissent — his going his own absolute road let hell blaze all it chooses." ~Walt Whitman. From Horace Traubel’s "With Walt Whitman in Camden"; 1914

03/23/2025

Maybe you forgot about some of this. Only the facts here. People you know need to know.

03/19/2025

03/10/2025

What makes a Fascist?

03/09/2025

"It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. Throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you…trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair: That's why you must walk so lightly; on tiptoes and no luggage... completely unencumbered.”
~Aldous Huxley, from "Island"

03/03/2025

“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can't defuse a bomb. But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth and name the liars.”
~Salman Rushdie

03/01/2025

"Deep in all of this, we are enmeshed in a traumatized family system. Dissociated by it. Subordinated by it. We have to grow the spine of reason, compassion, and relatedness from the inside. The collective psyche feels like a prevertebrate zygote to me right now. President Shrimp is an invertebrate with malicious spin, not spine." ~ Ravi Chandra