“This famous quote hangs over my desk, as well as the desks of many people with the hubris and optimism to believe they can change the world for the better.”

How then shall we live? Let us live lightly as a feather. How much shall we give? Let us give everything, together One heart, one mind, all humankind… I volunteer.

There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.

I Love, Therefore I Am

Sustainability is a set of conditions and trends in a given system that can continue indefinitely

Every living thing like a mountain stream that flows out o’er the land. I volunteer for the journey from here to heaven’s gate. I will do my part I place my heart in Your gracious hands.

It seems implausible, yet time and again history has proven it true.

Virtually every major shift in cultural history can trace its origins to the work of a small group, often gathered around an innovative thinker or body of thought.

How much is enough? How much does anyone require? Can I be both kind and tough? Can I put faith before desire? Right now, for all time, I vow to try . . . I volunteer to be simple, I volunteer to love.

County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that’s the problem.

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….

Reading is performance. The reader–the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk–performs the work.

I’m learning without having to be behind a desk, so it’s a pretty cool place to be.

Young Baby Boomers were forced to play duck-and-cover in school, in hopes that a desk would protect them from an atomic explosion. It was all bullshit, and they knew it.

It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon.

And then when we moved, I reconfigured my writing desk. The previous one had had very little space to write by hand. And suddenly, the poetry was gushing!

If you can socialize from the privacy of your desk at night in a dark room, you can be a smoother, cooler, funnier, sexy, more everything person than you actually are in real life.