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o their beds and sleep storing up energy for my return the welcoming festivities are needless to say intense at least i never feel forgotten this year of effectively sharing a cage with dogs has me pondering the human animal relationship even more than i usually do so i was eager to dive into colin dayan s new book animal quintet and to ask her a few questions for today s q a at chapter 16 relationships mother child human animal black white living dead are at the core of all the pieces in the collection and colin dayan is always unsparing in her depiction of the harm we inflict on the other but the stories she tells are also driven by a passion for understanding the wild beauty of experience you can read my review of her 2016 book with dogs at the edge of life here 1912 photo from the library of congress from the record photo shows walter w johnson a mining engineer and designer of gold and tin dredges who traveled around the seward peninsula on the family pupmobile and on horseback johnson wrote on the back of his copy of the photo when it was time to coast the dogs would jump aboard without command dudley and katie displaying their constant faith that if you sit a treat will come pixie s more of a skeptic posted by bittergrace at thursday february 04 2021 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels unscented reviews wednesday february 3 2021 all who have travelled this perishing life all who have travelled this perishing life let us gather and wait for our healing but time is no healer and time too will die in the vanishing stars great rembrandt the master of light and of shadow of tortuous path ambiguity come paint our faces the dazed lakes of eyes wishing for some other life jowls full with unfinished living and brows soft with unceasing hope come paint our faces the cradles of sun through white shutters the graveyards of dark afternoons stirrings of tea in a lifetime of mornings the touch of the lips kissing skin yes we remember the plantings of seed pods that may never bloom visits of uncles the births of our children we ve witnessed it all without knowing why come paint our faces the lights and the shadows the ends and beginnings all lost in the sea of uncertainties alan lightman from song of two worlds two african men rembrandt van rijn 1661 read observations about this painting here here and here posted by bittergrace at wednesday february 03 2021 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels poetry monday february 1 2021 you will call this mountain home when my sister died from the head of my visio came offspring in the thousands armed to the teeth each its own vessel my first their mother lived on for itself and its hoard it found a permanent home in a cave at the bottom of a lake and it waited until i was standing on a mountain to sing to me you will call this mountain home until i tell you to move again there will always be more of it underground than you will ever see with your eye and so it turned out to be true and so when i stood on the mountain that became my home i beheld a dirt sea and saw our moon which has two faces i learned that one face of our moon is dappled with maria and that the sunbeams here are newborns that lie on each other purpling into the fog and outstretched pines from dear beloved by sumita chakraborty kystlandskap i måneskinn coastal landscape in moonlight knud baade 1808 1879 posted by bittergrace at monday february 01 2021 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels poetry sunday january 31 2021 random thoughts inspired by the capitol riot pt 2 the homecoming marianne von werefkin 1860 1938 first of all if you are not up for political discussion i totally understand it won t hurt my feelings a bit if you just go check out these fabulous avian guitarists and skip the unpleasantness below h t to my old friend scentscelf for the video i thought about never coming back to comment further on the insurrection we re all sick to death of thinking about it aren t we when someone like anne applebaum suggests that maybe the best course of action would be to change the subject that s an option worth considering i don t share applebaum s rightwing political bent but her book twilight of democracy is an interesting and insightful if depressing read looking through some old posts on this blog though especially from 2008 and 2012 i was struck by the strong continuity between then and now i was wrong about a lot of things back then me on the tea party in 2009 i think our side should calm down a little and stop worrying that they re going to stage a coup or something but the elements that created january 6 were all in place years ago and they were not hidden though most of us couldn t see them with any clarity this makes me think it s worth setting down my thoughts now however incoherent they may be if only for the sake of revisiting them somewhere down the road when who knows where we ll have wound up in the weeks since the capitol riot it s become clear that there were several distinct factions involved some who showed up with a plan some who seemed to be there mostly to party and a large segment of folks who like comet ping pong dude before them apparently believed something heinous was going on and they better put a stop to it and have fun breaking windows and knocking heads in the process of course it s that third group that interests me because i can most clearly see my own folks in them not that i share their delusions or their ideology but they re the ones who seem the most like the people i grew up around the people i see around me today all those aging white men with beards wearing walmart jeans and jackets from the army surplus store with the confederate flag old glory and maga trump gear easily blending as cultural identifiers they are so familiar that guy beating the cop with the flagpole he looks exactly like one of the characters who used to hang out in my dad s favorite tavern i feel like i know him i feel like had my life taken just a slightly different turn early on i might have wound up married to him this feeling of embarrassed kinship with the rioters is something that anywhere left of center white people especially the ones with rural roots do not seem to be talking about very much i d like to digress briefly here to say that i will never get used to the way mainstream liberal democrats are now routinely labeled the left by almost everyone including themselves joe biden tool of the left good lord i know for sure i m not the only one who feels the kinship thanks to the popularity of the wild rant corey forrester tweeted on january 7 granted forrester is a comedian and this kind of thing is his business but he wouldn t have said it if he wasn t pretty sure there d be an audience for it and a lot of that audience is people like me who watched the riot with a sense of cringing shame as well as outrage oh my god it s us for more from forrester on the shame of our kind watch this i can t decide whether my inability or unwillingness to see myself as culturally other to the insurrectionists is a good thing or a bad thing it reminds me a lot of the way i felt about my paternal grandmother who was a second mother to me and my brothers a good and loving person in many ways but who was also a confirmed segregationist however outwardly friendly and kind she was willing to be toward black people and she was in my memory unfailingly so she could not would not let go of the deeply racist white supremacist view of the world she was raised with i could never disown my grandmother it would be dishonest she helped make me who i am without a doubt i hate many of the things she believed but i know there s not a bright line between the parts of our shared culture i love and the parts i hate and i don t see any reason to believe that i m a better human than she was that s the sticky troubling truth i have lived with forever and the insanity at the capitol is a powerful reminder i honestly don t know what to do with it for another lens on this same territory read abby lee hood s recent piece in the nyt and for a thought provoking take on the enduring role of shame in white southern culture and how it operates among the trumpian evangelicals read david french s thoughts at the dispatch french sees the political landscape very differently than i do and some of the positions he takes like his signing of the nashville statement are in my view deeply destructive to put it mildly but he understands the rising christian nationalism as well as anyone out there and he unfailingly writes from a thoughtful place trying to grapple with the larger moral implications of the moment and speaking of nationalism this weekend i watched daniel lombroso s white noise a documentary presented by the atlantic that follows lauren southern richard spencer and mike cernovich as they do their alt right white nationalist thing in the period leading up to and after charlottesville it s a compelling piece of filmmaking well worth watching but i m still not sure what i think about it the film presents the three main subjects as narcissistic damaged people equal parts insufferable and pitiable a take that is definitely not surprising to anyone who s ever known one of this tribe but i came away feeling like the film did not go deep enough that it spent too much time deconstructing the personalities and none at all deconstructing the ideology the evil of white nationalism is simply taken as a given and at no point does anybody actually challenge the substance of what southern spencer and cernovich are peddling they are never asked to defend what they re doing in any meaningful way i suspect that was a strategic choice on the part of the filmmakers a way of earning trust by avoiding conflict and it paid off in terms of letting us see the humans behind the rhetoric but it fell short in furthering our understanding of the movement they speak to you can see the trailer at the link above and on youtube you can read a profile lombroso wrote about southern here part 1 of this post is here posted by bittergrace at sunday january 31 2021 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bloviations monday january 25 2021 the sky is a black sudden cloud the shame what will the shame be what cost to pay we are walking in a wood wood of stones boulders for trees the sky is a black sudden cloud a sun speak to me say what things were forgotten robert creeley poetry february 1966 i read a wonderful essay today in which shame plays a role parricide blues by aaron gwyn you can read it here the painting is eternidade by ismael nery circa 1931 there s more nery on the blog here posted by bittergrace at monday january 25 2021 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels poetry sunday january 24 2021 one grief there is the one grief one grief there is the helpmeet of my heart that shall not from me till my days be sped that walks beside me in sunshine and in shade and hath in all my fortunes equal part at first i feared it and would often start aghast to find it bending o er my bed till usage slowly dulled the edge of dread and one cold night i cried how warm thou art since then we two have travelled hand in hand and lo my grief has been interpreter for me in many a fierce and alien land whose speech young joy had failed to understand plucking me tribute of red gold and myrrh from desolate whirlings of the desert sand by edith wharton born january 24 1862 from artemis to actaeon and other verses reflection by odilon redon circa 1900 postscript after i hit publish on this post i got to wondering whether i d ever noted wharton s birthday in the past i haven t but boy there s quite a bit of wharton related musing on this blog if you re interested you can find a roundup here posted by bittergrace at sunday january 24 2021 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels poetry monday january 18 2021 random thoughts inspired by the capitol riot pt 1 according to the listing at wikimedia commons the photo above was made the night before obama s swearing in on january 20 2009 since the riot one thing i can t stop thinking about is the outpouring of joy 12 years ago a degree of celebration i had never seen in my lifetime and frankly don t expect to see again i annoyed a lot of people in my circle back then by not being as happy as they were about obama s win i was happy about it make no mistake just not ready to jump up and down with joy and let go of my rage at all we d seen in the decade prior and yes i m a little sorry now that i didn t let myself partake of that joy more fully but i was afraid of our complacency afraid that we were congratulating ourselves too much and would give obama a pass on too many things we did give him a pass on things we shouldn t have not so much out of smugness as from a sense of being embattled once the rightwing backlash took hold now here we are feeling far more embattled than we could have imagined in 2010 or 2012 and i can t help noticing that one of the effects of our anxiety is intolerance for any criticism of the incoming administration i have found myself increasingly turning away from dissenting voices on our side few as they are not because i disagree with them usually but because now is not the time but when will be the the time therefore however much you exceed in wealth so much so do you fall short in love basil of caesarea i ve been thinking a lot about the capitol attackers who shouted whose house our house they didn t invent that chant or just borrow it from a football team it was used not so long ago by people with a very different political agenda it echoes the civics lessons we all got as kids the people s house etc but that notion of a common stake in democratic government is not what the rioters meant they weren t saying this is our government too they were saying this government is ours that is to say theirs alone as white people as christians as so called real americans i think this is a nuance that too often gets missed when we talk about white supremacy and nationalism the ideology of white supremacy isn t fundamentally a belief in racial superiority although that belief may be present it s not at its core about hatred although there is plenty of hatred attached to it white nationalism is really a deep belief in ownership of the culture and the country whenever i ve sparred with hardcore trump cultists online i ve always been struck by the proprietary way they talk about america and how obsessed they are with rights of ownership the concept of property is sacred to them i remember an exchange i had last summer when stores were being looted with someone who took real offense at my statement that no decent human being would shoot a person for stealing a tv it ...