Writing For Amsterdam

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It does not require a majority to prevail but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brushfires in people’s minds.

Samuel Adams

12/14/11

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Few tragedies can be more extensive that the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Gould

12/12/11

The clouds strewn across the blue-grey night sky outside my window are moving
Quick
Quick
Quick
The wind whipping them onward as though they were light plumes of smoke dancing violently through the air. And for a moment I imagine that they are. The distant mounds of condensation become mountains framing the buildings that appear to the blurry, sleepy eye to be burning.
Smoldering
Smoldering
Smoldering
My city is suddenly silently burning to the ground.

12/5/11