Things That Have Me Thinking . . .

About being a Cosmic Possum:

For cosmic possums culture is not an either- or proposition. The trick is to move into the future without letting go of the past, because if you lose your cultural identity, you have nothing to sustain you in the modern rootless world which lurches from one ephemeral trend to another.

About looking at the world in an artful way, every time I get Brian Andreas' Storypeople Story of the Day:

This is how the Archangel Michael shows up to potato people & you'll notice he's the same in every way, except he's a little rounder & he carries a flaming potato peeler