An Infinite Succession Of Presents

Laurie Anderson: Hiawatha ...3/12/90

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also
of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst,
it destroys our capacity to do something.

If we remember those times and places--
and there are so many--where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us,
is itself a marvelous victory.

--Howard Zinn

CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL
BONAPARTE BEFORE THE SPHINX
MENCIUS TEMPLE WITH PILGRIM
INDIAN PAINTBRUSH
REFLECTION OF HOPI PT. IN MONUMENT CANYON PUDDLE
LIGHTNING WITH MEERKAT FROM HEAD LIKE AN ORANGE
COMANCHE PT. AND PALISADES OF THE DESERT WITH RAINBOW