“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, compassion.”
~Simone de Beauvoir, French existentialist philosopher from The Coming of Age
Photo by Gem Fountain. (Taken with instagram)
When the play [“Waiting for Godot”] was first performed, one of the early productions was at San Quentin and those prisoners really related to it in a very deep and profound way. Because so many of us are in this kind of limbo, whether we’re behind bars or not, we’re waiting for something to happen in our lives.
— Michael Krasny, excerpted from a great interview with Lisa Webster who interviewed him about his newly released book, Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic’s Quest for Religion Dispatches.
I’m truly looking forward to reading this one.
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
