Holidays http://www.alansondheim.org/realworld.jpg "A year touched by sadness and certain family tensions" - not only the Queen of England, but ourselves here under dark and darkening skies. The grey gray sky is deeper still, intense, endless. We pray that the James Webb telescope will succeed, will look back, send back, return anything but ourselves to ourselves. We need a break from ourselves, from our own microbiome attacking and under attack. Meanwhile here on earth, my own family's broken, and this seems to be the case for so many of us. I take responsibility for that, but never entirely, how can that be for any of us when communication ends and nothing returns through the portal of grace which I among others have dismantled, dismembered. Nothing can be retrieved anywhere from parts; everywhere you look in the blank shield, only blank returns. In Providence we are deeply alone, except for one or two friends. On the street and under overpasses and in the scrublands it's far worse. I would say be kind, but of what kindness do we hover within, our plague increases daily here, setting new records. I would say this is the compression of the irreal in a season of impossibilities. I want to write, Dear Kant, what new categories, what roams, what is reason. This language is unreadable. Every age has its apocalyptic horizon; this time born and borne by extrapolation and science, it already present, eating away at the biosphere. Family tensions, cancellations, are imminent and immanent; they may consume us, destroy us. We are peeled, peel ourselves, from the core of who we are; we look back, are both horrified and full of wonder. Early worlds with their glimmer of hope turn dark with the encrustations of disease and disappearance. What now, Dear Kant, Dear Queen? Move the mouse and draw a blank. Zoom, call, return, be kind as you can be, be more than kind, be wise. More than gifts, holidays are for reflection, for those of us left behind. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
