"einstein's mother": a poem-video with music by jherek, for brainpickings. (Patreon)

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hallo loves.

“Was he mute a while, or all tears. Did he raise his hands to his ears so he could scream scream scream....”

greetings from day 30 of lockdown in aotearoa. i am not ok. but i'm ok. 

how are you? check in if you'd like, i'm reading. 

meanwhile.....

here's a little thing that came out a few days ago but i was too in the whirlwind of life to post it. it's not an official thing, but i am about to send the full video file out to the $5+ patrons as a little present.

maria (from brainpickings.org) asked me to read this poem, and then i asked jherek bischoff to make a little soundtrack for it, and we made this....thing....just because we could.

maybe something bigger like this could be a real thing sometime soon.

i am having the uncontrollable urge (i am not kidding) to do some choreographed dancing. not sure where these urges come from, but now that i have patreon, i can listen closely.

here's maria's beautiful post, it begins....

"The forces of chance that chisel reality out of the bedrock of possibility — this improbable planet, this improbable life — leave ghostly trails of what-ifs, questions asked and unanswered, unanswerable. 

Why do you, this particular you, exist? 

Why does the universe? 

And once the dice have fallen in favor of existence, there are so many possible points of entry into life, so many possible fractal paths through it — so many ways to live and die even the most ordinary life, a life of quiet and unwitnessed beauty, washed unremembered into the river of time after this chance constellation of atoms disbands into stardust. There are, after all, infinitely many kinds of beautiful lives.

Every once in a very long while, chance deals a life out of the ordinary, islanded in the rapids of collective memory as one of lasting and profound legacy — a life that has seen far beyond the horizon of its own creaturely limits, into the deepest truths of the universe...."

read the whole thing at:

https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/04/18/einsteins-mother-tracy-k-smith-amanda-palmer/

i love you all.

scream.....

scream.....

scream.

x

a

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