Dreamvale Tributes is a free story collection available at my website Chalquist.com/fiction. Let’s bring the hope.

Dreamvale Tributes is a free story collection available at my website Chalquist.com/fiction. Let’s bring the hope.

Something to bear in mind when the world is getting you down.

Hope you are taking extra good care of yourself at this time.

We call ourselves "intelligent," yet the humblest fungus can decompose waste and build soil, a tree can harness solar energy, and a wetland can purify water—all without toxic byproducts. True intelligence is learning from these systems, not bulldozing them.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED YouTube video by TED

time to share this again

"we live in culture that sidelines the creative act"

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Why we needed the Artemis II mission

He wanted the last sounds to come from there to be music and not missiles. Image from ABC7 New York.

“Picture a nation led by avaricious idiots.” “You know what we need? Pay-per-view executions! They’d get good ratings, too.”

Analog: a good metaphor for taking our power back from binary, divisive price gougers.

Happily N’ever After-Dinner Mints

Yes. It’s easy to use now.

A lesson from Frank Herbert’s Dune books

Olaf is in about the same shape as the US right now.

Courtesy of The Atlantic

The Jetsons lied to us

They melted down their balls to make the award.

Dance the revolution. A revolution without dancing and celebration isn’t much use.

A history lesson from Tolkien.

There's a belief that if you can't see the exact path forward, that no path is possible, and that's just not accurate and not how the world has ever worked. The way forward is almost never known in detail. But getting the compass heading right matters a lot.

Right, and although I’m not on the receiving end of it, it looks even worse than the 80s.

What do clichés think of how we use them? #cliches

I’ll never forget the first day I saw him: on TV in our college dorm room. I recognized him as the guy my parents wouldn’t let me watch because “he swears too much,” so I knew who he was, but never got to see him. My roommates and I laughed so hard. Instant fans.

It’s what happens to Captain America’s shield when Hydra steals it.

What if there was a worldwide alliance of visionaries, creatives, performers, dreamers, and storytellers?