i don't know how much, in what way, whether, to use this blog, but i think. i think. that it might be amusing. and in that spirit. I've decided to give it another shot...
The day's excitements are few...
trying to get ready to teach.
What i think today is that I want real possibilities for joy this year. and so...that reaction to South Africa, I think. It's not that South Africa is a panacea for joy. Just the opposite. but to somehow make room for joy. still such a viable necessity.
I was thinking about this moment with Lori, where we're looking at pics, and we come to one of the images of kids filling up water jugs that they will then try to carry home...and thinking...how difficult it is to find a way to make sense of a life that is not about trying to find water. How to live in the midst of the privilege, the entitlement...without turning into a person whose knee jerk response is to say...well, i have no right to complain because...
I want more complicated responses
including opportunities for laughter in the midst of horror.