“What was shocking were the rewards my father's cousins had gathered in the intervening couple of decades. They farmed now on thousands of acres, not hundreds. They drove fancy pickup trucks, owned lakefront property and second homes. A simple Internet search offered the truth of where their riches had come from: good ol' Uncle Sam. Recently I clicked again on… — Philip Connors Copy Share
One of the things about living in the shadow of a suicide is that everyone involved is going to have some guilt, is going… — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
I’ve always liked edges, places where one thing becomes another…… transition zones, boundaries and borderlands. I like the mixing that happens, the juxtapositions, the… — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a man!', 'Be… — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
“That thing some people call boredom, in the correct if elusive dosage, can be a form of inoculation against itself. Once you struffle through… — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble… — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
“Our elected leaders treat us as children or consumers — ideally both, monstrous in our appetites, unable to discriminate between our wants and our needs.” — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
“By being virtually useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.” — Philip Connors Copy Share Image
