bell hooks

[iridium]

this came up in a conversation, and since the zine i read it in is packed into a box in a closet in California, i decided to go digging through my lj-archive to find it. it's a bell hooks quote, on openness and truth.

There are some folks for whom openness is not about the luxury of "will I choose to share this or that," but rather "will I survive - will I stay alive?" and openness is about how to be well, and telling the truth is about how to put the broken bits & pieces of the heart back together again. It is about being whole, being wholehearted.

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[tyratae.livejournal.com]

that's very nice.

hooks is one of those ppl everybody in my field talks about, but very rarely does anything particular or concrete come from overhearing those conversations. this is really... vivid. thanks for sharing it!

[iridium.livejournal.com]

you're welcome. :)

i haven't read really anything else of hers; that quote was on the back of a zine on awareness of and how to cope with sexual assault. i've been meaning to go look up something more by her, but haven't done it yet.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it would apply to victims of many abuses. Thank you for sharing that quote.

[iridium.livejournal.com]

*nod* it does. you're welcome. :)

just because it's in my head at the moment -- there's a collection of a zine called "doris" that just came out recently as a full book. really, really good, if you like that kind of raw-experience-writing, and if you don't mind reading something that's all cut-and-paste formatting.

[vagabonda.livejournal.com]

ooh, i like that one.....

often i think of life as an ongoing quest in stringing together an assorted jumble of jeweled fragments of experience to form an elegant necklace that looks pretty while climbing the cliffs from the depths of despair, or perhaps as patchworking shredded scraps snugly together to keep me warm and cheerful throughout the storms.

also, won't you be up in these northeasterly parts sometime next month? i'd like to invite you for a day adventuring and building beautiful found things in natural environs....

[iridium.livejournal.com]

*smile* many metaphors, indeed. beautiful webs and nets, quilts and jewelry.

and yeah, i'll be coming up to boston sometime around the 1st of may, and staying until the 12th or 13th. might run off to maine with nacht_musik for a couple of days in there, but i'd definitely also be up for a day out adventuring. i was thinking of going out to the Nashoba winery, and i'd love to find that old stone church again, but i don't at all remember where it is. maybe we could find another, or somewhere else for picnicking...