We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created to love and to be loved .

The stakes are sky-high. If Americans want to control their fate, if they truly want to innovate, if they want to forge an ethical future, if they really care about themselves and the environment, then they need to start making things for themselves.

Page 29, Making it in America, Rachel Slade.

Life is like the moon –
now dark, now full.

old farmer’s almanac:

full sturgeon moon 08/09/25
new moon 08/23/25

Hope is heavy sometimes
and other times
It becomes your wings
and lifts you up.
That’s the thing about hope
sometimes you carry it
and sometimes it carries you.

Kristin Kory, Hungry for Ghosts