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Mar 29Liked by Elizabeth Oldfield

I am just getting back to this after the first reading sent me on a Amichai tangent that absorbed by work afternoon headphone selections. The thing that makes your theory unarguable is that you run the lab work aloud on the Sacred podcast over and over. Well said is cool. Well lived like that even cooler.

I know without waffle that the overturning of a conviction, the clear changing of sides assisted by love rather than force is a thing, often a terrible beauty and a mercy. But the hybridization you hint at is, with our infatuation with all in/all out, maybe under sought and under celebrated.

The type of relationships we have lost the most in modernity so-called are those with non-human and most of those have such little truck with currencies of in/out conquer/convert/debate. I think we taste this forgotten shape-shift unto the middle in its last remaining vestiges with our companion animals, our best friends. We came through the bottleneck of the paleolithic with the wolf. We recognize the dog as the tide of our "persuasion" but I wonder if we are still what we were when the wolf found us. I doubt it. I wonder how many bits of magic and flexibility and nuance of being we have failed to come to because of human exclusivism that is, maybe, the us/them roots of our attraction to species purity of the ideological style.

This is a tangent to your important ask to maybe reconsider our Stupid as it is destroying our togethering. Just the two cents your silver knocked loose from the rattle trap. Plus, Amichai. I love that guy.

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I remember noticing seeing the clarity of the mountains during Covid it was 2020 vision in 2020, the city was crystal and sparkling bright, everyone stopped the machine for a brief moment in history, but for the life of me, I can not understand why so few didn’t look up to notice what had occurred, we stopped the payment of pollution and were desperate to go back and pollute twice as much to ‘catch up’, with dying for the machine, rather than sharing dinner together.

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