Love is All You Need

                      

   









         Radix malorum est cupidity
  "the root of evil is cupidity" (greed, hunger )
     not money: money's not the problem
                     nor guns.
       Don't be blaming IT on guns.
            Or technology  either. 
    Or overpopulation for crying out loud.


On this day in 269, St Valentine was clubbed
to death for converting to Xtianity and curing
the blind daughter  of his jailer.

  Apparently with no surprise,
To any happy flower,
The frost beheads it at its play,
In accidental power.
The blond assassin passes on.
The sun proceeds unmoved,
To measure off another day,
For an approving God.
                 Emily Dickinson.

This poem and a chapter from Toni Morrison’s SULA
constitutes the assigned text for this week. Sampling
American Literature. 

My motto: Do More With Less.
This was Ernst Schumacher’s theme back in the 60’s
and 70’s—as an Economist:  his book Small is Beautiful
was a bible here at WWC, until we decided to double
our size for “economic” and competitive reasons.
 
Even now: professional educators liken rigor & quality
with volume  of WORK assigned—the more reading
and writing the better. Size matters if it’s a lot.
Or a little.
 
I, myself, am lazy—a goldbrick—and would rather linger
with a little, fool around, put it in play. Wonder.
The whelm don’t appeal to me.
 
“We’re all crazy egos, hungry for love,”
says Sherwood Anderson in one of his
short stories.
 
“I want to rise to high, when I shit
some of it’ll touch everybody,” say a professor in
William Gass’s “In the Hear of the Heart of the Country.”
 
All we need is love.
Love Love Love
Love is all we need
love  is all we need
love is all we need.             Etc.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4p8qxGbpOk

It depends on what you mean by
“IS” says Bill Clinton, president
of the world.  
 
xxxooo, Sam