— AND THERE ARE MANY WAYS OF BLEEDING —
I almost “lost it” and needed to reflect.
KEY CONCERNS (in no particular order):
Treason, home, recognition, vulnerability, racism, no descendants, softness, the edge of being involved in life, culture, science, my many books & treasures, my current work…
Being an exile – having to flee after having being attacked for being “a Jew” (in post-war Paris/France) – in the shadow of “much targeted killing” and my grandmother gassed in Auschwitz, having had to go from teaching position to teaching position to none, and a father’s under-appreciated major artistic body of work, to safeguard and valorise it…
And plants, animals, insects, humans, land & seascapes – and what we can’t see – all interconnected like family.
And noise & pollution as poisons, like human-centered stupidity.
Deep ecology, the intelligence of kindness (which reminds me of a gentle & kind nihilism).
A lot has been said a while back in an interview I gave in a Bolivian paper (The Void and its Pressure).
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