Creative writing and artful observations

[Magical Realist]

"Confessions of a Failed Iconoclast""
Entry 1

"At the age of 23 I was bestowed a large iron hammer by Friedrich Nietzsche to smash idols and gods with. But one day, after having smashed a few of them, I came upon one I really liked and admired. So unbeknownst to other iconoclasts, I secretly smuggled it home and hid it in a closet. Alas I was expelled from the iconoclast guild shortly thereafter. But at least my garden looks much nicer now."

"The End"

[Magical Realist]

"I think marriage is a very alienating institution, for men as well as for women. I think it's a very dangerous institution—dangerous for men, who find themselves trapped, saddled with a wife and children to support; dangerous for women, who aren't financially independent and end up by depending on men who can throw them out when they are 40; and very dangerous for children, because their parents vent all their frustrations and mutual hatred on them. The very words 'conjugal rights' are dreadful. Any institution which solders one person to another, obliging people to sleep together who no longer want to is a bad one."----Simone De Beauvoir

[Magical Realist]

“the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others. When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better. To be loving we willingly hear the other’s truth, and most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.”― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions