In [fairy tales], power is rarely the right tool for survival anyway. Rather the powerless thrive on alliances, often in the form of reciprocated acts of kindness —from beehives that were not raided, birds that were not killed but set free or fed, old women who were saluted with respect. Kindness sown among the meek is harvested in crisis.
Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby (via decadent-romanticism)
I’ve been reading a lot of Solnit these last couple years, and boy does she ever deliver.
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