sundowning

 I sat on the couch while the sun was setting and the sky was changing, and I wondered why I don't do it more often. I was reading an interview with Patti Smith, and maybe her shamanism has infected me! Or maybe I'm just in a certain kind of mood. 

Now it's dark out there. The traffic lights along Third Street are going from red to green to yellow (and so on); the streetlights, of course, are white. I haven't turned on any lights in here. The headlights of cars driving past light up the ceiling at the front of the living room for a few seconds. 

I haven't decided what to have for dinner. Leftover butternut squash pasta? Or an improvised pair of tacos? Or maybe I should make that potato soup with greens. 

It's true

My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: “Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.” It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it. In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people.

-Stellan Skarsgard