"The Earth is Closing on Us"

"Where should we go after the last frontiers,
where should the birds fly after the last sky?"

A piece from "The Earth is Closing on Us", by Mahmoud Darwish (palestinian poet)

To Kill a Mockingbird

"Mockingbirds don´t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don´t eat up people´s gardens, don´t nest in corncribs, they don´t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That´s why it´s a sin to kill a mockingbird..."

Miss Maudie to Jean Louise Scout Finch

Say a little prayer for me

"Dear God, let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry... have too much to eat. Let me ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is lost..."

Francie Nolan, in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"