I’ve spent the weekend trying to piece together abstracts and get my head around things I will present for various upcoming events – an activity that has torn my thoughts into all sorts of directions other than where I wanted to be thinking right now. Too scattered for focussed posting, and heading into my teaching week, which typically doesn’t leave me with time for substantive comments, I thought I should at least toss up something to change the scenery. ;-)
From Adrienne Rich “The Spirit of Place” II & V
taking on the worldas it is not as we wish it as it is not as we work for it to be…
The world as it is: not as her users boast damaged beyond reclamation by their using Ourselves as we are in these painful motionsof staying cognizant: some part of us always out beyond ourselves knowing knowing knowingAre we all in training for something we don't name? to exact reparation for things done long ago to us and to those who did notsurvive what was done to them whom we ought to honor with grief with fury with action