Dark Places
 "Because you are human beings, you are going to meet failure. You are
going to meet disappointment, injustice, betrayal, and irreparable
loss. You will find you're weak where you thought yourself strong.
You'll work for possessions and then find they possess you. You will
find yourself - as I know you already have - in dark places, alone, and
afraid…. So what I hope for you is that you live there not as
prisoners, ashamed of being, consenting captives of a
psychopathic social system, but as natives. That you will be at home
there, keep house there, be your own mistress, with a room of your
own…. I hope you live without the need to dominate, and without the
need to be dominated. I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have
no power over other people. And when you fail, and are defeated, and in
pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is
your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are
won, but where the future is."
– Ursula Le Guin, from
her speech to to the graduates of Mills College, 1983
from the MondayMorningMemo©
of Roy H. Williams, the Wizard of Ads®
https://wizardacademy.org/scripts/default.asp
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