plant a tree, and remember I am free ( 25 June 2016)

 planting trees for koalas

The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.

― George Orwell

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm free in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.”

― George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.

- George Orwell, Why I Write

from the Museum of Things, Museum der Dinge, Berlin
there is also a Museum of Everything in London - a little more Outsider Art / Third Drawer Down


In 1984, George Orwell wrote

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

thinking of this differently,

change your relationship to the past by changing your relationship to the present

Tomorrow we will do beautiful things.

- Antoni Gaudí