Thank you, great read. A complicated and confusing situation brought clearer by you and I appreciate your thought "When unhealed trauma guides reactions and actions, one has to step away and care for oneself and for those who are open to learning." very nice. Peace.
I very much appreciate your voice, your art, here. I grew up in South Florida. When I was a child, I had an Aunt Lil and Uncle Jack who were Jewish. I believed they were my actual aunt and uncle. Their sons and I and my siblings played together. I loved them. One of my best friends in college was Jewish. We played volleyball together, I tutored her in school, we spent hours at her house, her mother preparing one of my favorites, "eggs and onions" which we ate ravenously on Ritz crackers. You don't grow up in SoFlo without knowing and loving Jewish people. So my heart goes out to the anti-zionists, their feeling of invisibility and their vulnerability for retaliation. Nevertheless, I have Palestinian friends; artists and poets, some were our volunteers, some in my circle. As a child of a dispora, grandparents fleeing occupation and genocide and famine, then landing on other stolen land, I feel an obligation to work for peace and right wrongs. I wrote about this in February 2022. How we have just been ignoring Palestine, Syria, the Congo...the world at a loss for peace. I have no answers, except to amplify voices and continue to teach resistance...using art and curiosity and tools to discern sources and propaganda from truth.
I have no answers. I have been in a fog of sadness myself. I have read more about reports on sexual assault on October 7 as well, just adding to cumulative horror, and I appreciate everything you have written here. I am your sister in reflection and am trying to orient my overall direction to justice, not as a strategy but as a necessary outcome for peace. 💜
Thank you, great read. A complicated and confusing situation brought clearer by you and I appreciate your thought "When unhealed trauma guides reactions and actions, one has to step away and care for oneself and for those who are open to learning." very nice. Peace.
I very much appreciate your voice, your art, here. I grew up in South Florida. When I was a child, I had an Aunt Lil and Uncle Jack who were Jewish. I believed they were my actual aunt and uncle. Their sons and I and my siblings played together. I loved them. One of my best friends in college was Jewish. We played volleyball together, I tutored her in school, we spent hours at her house, her mother preparing one of my favorites, "eggs and onions" which we ate ravenously on Ritz crackers. You don't grow up in SoFlo without knowing and loving Jewish people. So my heart goes out to the anti-zionists, their feeling of invisibility and their vulnerability for retaliation. Nevertheless, I have Palestinian friends; artists and poets, some were our volunteers, some in my circle. As a child of a dispora, grandparents fleeing occupation and genocide and famine, then landing on other stolen land, I feel an obligation to work for peace and right wrongs. I wrote about this in February 2022. How we have just been ignoring Palestine, Syria, the Congo...the world at a loss for peace. I have no answers, except to amplify voices and continue to teach resistance...using art and curiosity and tools to discern sources and propaganda from truth.
I have no answers. I have been in a fog of sadness myself. I have read more about reports on sexual assault on October 7 as well, just adding to cumulative horror, and I appreciate everything you have written here. I am your sister in reflection and am trying to orient my overall direction to justice, not as a strategy but as a necessary outcome for peace. 💜