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Family Dramas and Ecstatic Sorrows
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If the goal is to have some space in which one can live one’s own life, then it is desirable that the account of specific injustices dissolves in the broader recognition that everywhere human beings do terrible things to each other.
In the face of others’ pain,
~ Susan Sontag.
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Peace be upon the daughter who helped her parents grow up. Accepted their cold shoulder, excused their anger, pardoned their mistakes, taught them how to be human. Peace be upon the sister who paid the price of rebellion. Screaming to her fullest, shaking like a leaf but standing tall, never letting the dictatorship go without a fight, paving the path for her siblings to breathe easier.
~ author unknown
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Sex is a prose word masking what only the volcanic vocabulary of poetry can describe…
…Strangely, through the tiny deaths experienced in sensually meeting another we literally bring life into the world: what lies behind the word sex is our early and repeated reconnaissance into the experience and disappearances of our own eventual death.
… Sex is the poor over-short, over-burdened word that has to carry the entire spectrum of human sensuality and human identity in all its…
