The beauty of what we do is its secrecy, its smallness. (TM)
AG2020_2000430-2 or what we do
Author: dig
trying to fashion a better way
For my people walking blindly spreading joy, losing time
being lazy, sleeping when hungry, shouting when
burdened, drinking when hopeless, tied, and shackled
and tangled among ourselves by the unseen creatures
who tower over us omnisciently and laugh;
[…]
For my people standing staring trying to fashion a better way
from confusion, from hypocrisy and misunderstanding,
trying to fashion a world that will hold all the people,
all the faces, all the adams and eves and their countless generations;
Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born.
Margaret Walker, “For My People”
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The subjunctive is a lovely mood (Joshua Clover)
AG2016_1040254a, a temporal concept
Yahdon Israel on The Critic and Her Publics. (Aaliyah Bilal’s Temple Folk. Merchants of Culture by John B. Thompson)
space, too, is a temporal concept. Paul Klee, Creative Confession and Other Writings
AG2016_1050044 or all my angels
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lose himself in the mechanics of the ordinary (CK)
I dissent the erosion of the imaginary
I dissent the egregious display of power, poor governance, lack of empathy, little disregard for life and the living, the reluctance to help those in need, the militarization of public space, the inherent threat in the display of might and potentiality to cause great harm, the unnecessary and aggressive measures as claims of defending sovereignty, the regressive moves against our heterogeneous and complex communities, the erosion of the social, practices of community, justice, democracy, and civility.
