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Topsy Turvy Holidays during an Inverted Year

Posted on February 28, 2021 by jillbpearlman

Welcome to the Dionysian spring holidays — Mardi Gras, Carnivale, Purim, falling in love — that turn things upside down during a year in which everything has been turned upside down.  It makes for fascinating spatial — and metaspatial — … Continue reading →

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World Valentine

Posted on February 14, 2021 by jillbpearlman

This Valentine’s Day, my object of love is the world, and what kind of a clear manageable object is that?   I could narrow it down, focus, make it a simple object, like an oyster, and use all of my … Continue reading →

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BHLIG!! At-home Peace and Conflict Studies

Posted on February 7, 2021 by jillbpearlman

This morning I started doing my own peace and conflict studies before tea, before I was awake. I’d startled myself when I realized that the word “conflict” shelters “con” — a warm and fuzzy prefix meaning “together”  or “with.”  I … Continue reading →

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What Augurs, Biden?

Posted on January 24, 2021 by jillbpearlman

A smart observer once said about our new president: “If you ask me who the luckiest person I know, it’s Joe Biden.  If you ask me who the unluckiest person I know, it’s Joe Biden.”  As a lover of paradox, … Continue reading →

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Stuck in the Stalls of History

Posted on January 10, 2021 by jillbpearlman

In Roberto Bolaño’s Savage Detectives, his sprawling novel of poets, revolutionaries and Pinochet, I remember most vividly the scene of a poet trapped in a stall of the bathroom as riot police entered her university.   Where else would she … Continue reading →

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2020: Opera Extraordinaire

Posted on January 3, 2021 by jillbpearlman
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Solstice, burning bright

Posted on December 20, 2020 by jillbpearlman

Solstice, winter, covid: we are close to the dark.   Those winter days that swing between flat gray and blindingly bright gray work a subtle palette.  During insomniac nights — at 3am, at 4am — I am close to the … Continue reading →

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Playing with Woe

Posted on December 13, 2020 by jillbpearlman

The protestations — the kicking and screaming —where did we think horsehairs came fromhow do you get chicken soupif not from a chicken what did we really think of this reality thing at night, unguarded in our heart of heartsat the poker game, hurtling … Continue reading →

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thanksgiving in blue, quince and gray

Posted on November 26, 2020 by jillbpearlman

It’s raining, a dreary gray-drenched drizzly rain. But rain blurs, takes the detail from things. What is data in rain? What is insistent, goal-driven argument? What is rain plus holiday? A chance to lay down my arms. Rest in a … Continue reading →

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Release

Posted on November 15, 2020 by jillbpearlman

I wanted a cheap fix, a release, an anythingbut the present thing, a veering from catastrophe and know as the wind blowsthere is no quick fix but jeez, how little is granted, how stingy reality, how it seeps its goodness,  what … Continue reading →

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