We become ourselves through others, and the self is a porous thing, not a sealed container. If it begins as a genetic map, it is one that is expressed over time and only in relation to the world… We do not author ourselves, which is not to say that we have no agency or responsibility,…
Grief, after all, is desire for the dead or for what’s been lost and can never come again. Grief is longing. This was stasis without fulfillment. This was the world stopped, meaning extinguished. – Siri Hustvedt, Living, Thinking, Looking More than a dozen years ago, Paul and I were in a serious train wreck with…
Desire is the engine of life, the yearning that goads us forward with stops along the way, but it has no destination, no final stop, except death. – Siri Hustvedt, Living, Thinking, Looking This week I am writing with Martha, Rose, Gail, David, and Julio in mind. My weekend was filled with them, filled before they…
My essays are a form of mind travel, of walking toward answers with an acute awareness that I will never come to the end of the road. I use my own experiences the way I use the experiences of others – as insights to further an idea. – Siri Hustvedt, Living, Thinking, Looking, 2014 This…
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So you get this sort of ambivalent response – we’ll embrace the idea, but we will not embrace the reality. – john a. powell, A Civil Conversation with Krista Tippet, On Being, March 10, 2015 This statement by john a. powell has been haunting me since I read it a week or so ago. My…
There’s also the language of personal responsibility, which suggests really that there’s no institutional and structural responsibility. There’s no collective responsibility. If you’re not doing well, it’s not because of anything that we in society have done. It’s not because of our history, our legacy of Jim Crow, segregation, exploitation and subordination; it’s all personal.…
I can’t decide today not to be black, because the world will insist that I am black, and there are institutions and arrangements that define me that way. I can’t decide not to be black and go in New York and hail a cab. The first cab drivers driving by are not inside my own…
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