I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last. - Rebecca Solnit

Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.

Howard Zinn wrote in 1988, in what now seems like a lost world before so many political upheavals and technological changes arrived, “As this century draws to a close, a century packed with history, what leaps out from that history is its utter unpredictability.

...you don't have the memory of your future; {that}the future is indeed dark, which is the best thing it could be; and that, in the end, we always act in the dark. The effects of your actions may unfold in ways you cannot foresee or even imagine.