Friday, September 18, 2009

If all you have is a hammer

"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."

-
Abraham H. Maslow (1962), Toward a Psychology of Being


1 comment:

shell said...

Hey Mark! Didn't know you were keeping a blog all this time. :)

this post reminds me (loosely) of lyrics from Willy Mason's Save Myself, esp since you mention New Orleans in a later post:

When the culture's drowning in a bad dream
Save myself, save myself and
When the old religion is the new greed
Save myself, save myself and
They sabotaged the levee, killed gris gris
Save myself, save myself and
When the vultures copyright the word free
Save myself, I got to save myself and

Baby won't you come
Baby won't you come...

When the elders all are playing make believe
Save myself, I got to save myself and
When they teach us lessons that they don't believe
Save myself, I got to save myself and
When they build up statues but neglect their seed
Save myself, I got to save myself and
When my love and my hammers all I really need
Save myself, I got to save myself and

Baby won't you come
Baby won't you come...

It's a lovely song; pretty sure you can find it on youtube.