It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.
ColetteTags: friends love curiosity smile flowers tears grief letter collapse friendly
I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it."
~Will Landsman
Tags: comedy collapse head memoirs-of-a-teenage-amnesiac spontaneous
He tans into burning while the opening fanfare to "Peaches en Regalia" flows over him, the bugle call for a hippie army that marched at the peak of the American parabola, that moment when physics held its breath to allow levitation, a small reward before the descent. The hippies knew it then, Maggot Boy Johnson thinks; they couldn't build it into words but they could feel it; a floating in the stomach as history shifted direction. They stopped, hey, what's that sound, and knew that the spiny skyscrapers reflected in the river, the chasms of concrete, the wide streets and sidewalks, the power lines cutting into the hills and mountains above missile silos, the highways drawing lines across the blank plains under enormous skies, the pupil of God's eye, would be the ruins that their grandchildren wandered among, the reminders that once there was always water in the faucet, there was electricity all the time, and America was prying off the shackles of its past. The vision opened up to them and winked out again, and those it blinded staggered through their lives unable to see anything else, while the rest of them wondered if they had only dreamed it.
Brian Francis SlatteryTags: history society hippies collapse
I'd like to issue a call to realism for those of us in so-called developed industrial nations, who indulge in great horror at the gradual collapse of our own pathologically unsustainable mode of existence while ignoring the reality of the majority of this planet’s residents, who do not in fact share the same dread or anxiety about losing what most of them, frankly, never had to squander in the first place.
Brian AwehaliTags: ecology collapse catastrophism climate-change
My thoughts are free to roam back to the way she leaned her head on my arm for a split second, as if wishing she could let herself go, let herself lean farther. But she didn't, and I can’t help but respect her for that, even I know her strength is false, propped up by the shaky girders of Old Man Jack. One day soon, those girders will collapse, and her world will crumble, and I know I have to be there when that happens.
Jasinda WilderTags: free thoughts collapse falling nell let-go colton falling-into-you jasinda-wilder crumble jack-daniels
If economies collapse and lawlessness rules and resources are scarce, many people who claim with their mouths that they follow Jesus... will abandon him with their lives.
Brandon AndressTags: life christianity jesus christian rules jesus-christ economy collapse lives resources abandon abandoned scarce economies lawless lawlessness
If people feel lost and alone and helpless and broken and hopeless today, what will it be like if the world really begins to come apart at the hinges?
Brandon AndressTags: lost world people christianity alone survival christian economy hopeless collapse survive broken economic-depression last-days helpless end-times economic-collapse come-apart hinges
Winter arrived with December, and the world continued to suffer the loss of the Internet and most forms of communication. Supply chains were disrupted. The only mass form of personal communication was the letter, and postal workers were having their worst year ever, as they were actually meeded. Food was becoming scarcer and more expensive, as was fuel for vehicles and heating. Major cities experienced riots on a regular basis, spurred on by religious fervor and want. Civilization was on the brink of collapse.
Mark A. RaynerTags: world loss civilization communication religion letters suffering suffer winter internet letter heat december collapse supply-chain postal disruptive riots fuel supply riot supply-and-demand disruption arrive arrived autos dec disrupt heating postal-service postal-workers vehicles
That’s the thing about the collapse of civilization, Blake. It never happens according to plan – there’s no slavering horde of zombies. No actinic flash of thermonuclear war. No Earth-shuddering asteroid. The end comes in unforeseen ways; the stock market collapses, and then the banks, and then there is no food in the supermarkets, or the communications system goes down completely and inevitably, and previously amiable co-workers find themselves wrestling over the last remaining cookie that someone brought in before all the madness began.
Mark A. RaynerTags: war planning plans civilization communication madness apocalypse chaos end armageddon zombie the-end zombies cookies collapse plan end-of-the-world wrestling nuclear flash cookie communications end-times asteroid food-shortage food-storage according-to-plan bank-failure blake-given communication-system communication-systems food-rationing food-shortages not-with-a-bang stock-market-collapse thermo-nuclear thermonuclear with-a-whimper world-ending world-ends wrestle
One of the most important skills we can develop for collapse is the
capacity to listen.
Tags: activism sacred collapse
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