cayce & the sunshine band

"In 1877 a critic called John Ruskin wrote a throwaway line about art. He put it in a preface to one of his books about Venice. He said that nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts: the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and in the book of their art. He said that all were worth reading but that the last was the only one worth trusting." (via)

the world was never ours
we only thought it was
it is what it is
the world was never ours
save through otchkies of Oz
but Elba for the wise
the world was never ours
we only thought it was

The Blackness of the grackle.

"From 1980 to 2016, according to Noaa records, the US experienced an average of five and a half $1bn-plus “weather and climate disasters” a year. From 2012 to 2016, that reached 10.6 such events a year."