“choose one thing in life or nature that calls you, and deepen in your study of that; to deeply know one thing is to deeply reveal the nature in everything.”

Zionist project of Israel has physically and ideologically alienated most of the Jewish communities native and continuously inhabiting these lands—a wound still desperate for repair.

I myself am in a constant process of re-membrance and deepening, my thoughts and understandings changing, expanding, and transforming.

underlying protocols and lifeways which emerge from this center and generally become more distant the more conquest we experience. Still, it is not beyond our early lineages, or any human, to potentially corrupt and manipulate these things,

time capsule of diaspora, its own vortex of loss and preservation severed from their original geographical terrains.

The nature of diaspora—of me—is liminal, queer in its own right. Cyclical and migratory. I am constantly moving “in between” places, peoples, and ways of knowing.

All homogenization and erosion of localized cultures also erodes ecological integrity and the intelligence that emerges from autonomous intimacy with ancestral place.