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“Non nobis solum nati sumus. Not for ourselves alone are we born.” — Cicero |
13 July, 2014
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“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail
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5 July, 2014
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“Hell, if someone bought me a Bentley, I’d become a lesbian too” — A friend
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28 June, 2014
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“A big lie is easier to sell than a small lie” — A high school social studies teacher explaining how politics works
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21 June, 2014
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“In a word I heard that life’s a cactus tree. If you ever find a way to break its skin, won’t you take a drink for me.” — Ferron, Cactus Song
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On the Map: Be Strong and Naledi
Part of my commitment in this new life phase is to be out in the world doing what I love in community with others. I have often felt strange, ill at ease in my own head – the chasm between my inner world and outer reality sometimes incomprehensibly vast. And yet, in this new phase, I am choosing to step out none the less.
I’m now on a board of an organization run by an old friend called Be Strong Families and I’m now a judge for the South African version of the Tony Awards, the Naledi Theatre Awards. I find myself emerging.
14 June, 2014
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“I heard there was a secret chord that David played and it please the Lord, but you don’t really care for music do you?” — Leonard Cohen
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Cairo Visit
Four days in Cairo for for a friend’s graduation.
Festivities then roaming the city, including seeking out beer (it takes us two days, and four hours, the windows have plywood nailed over them because in this Muslim city, you don’t want to be seen from the street.)
Then a descent into tombs and Erwan (the brother) is bored and listening to hip-hop on his Iphone and I try to tell him no, these were the first rappers, don’t you see? They made whole rooms to show off their wealth and possessions. He doesn’t really buy it.
Mostly I am amazed by the movement – teaching cows to walk, the geese threatening to take flight.
We come upon the first rounded wall and the first graffiti (c. 1,800 BCE) done by some priests.
In Cairo I feel like I have awoken from a slumber – seeing old friends, back in a family, the pulsing of a city 20 million+, descending into the massive grave of 24 dead bulls with black granite tombs and then emerging to the pale heat of the desert – I just want more.
7 June, 2014
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“She must chop my money, chop my money, chop my money, ‘cuz I don’t care”. |
31 May, 2014
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“Oh Baltimore, ain’t it hard just to live” — Nina Simone: Baltimore |