Day 5 of 5. I was nominated by Maria Caporale. Five days, three things for which I am grateful each day; three nominees each day. I am grateful for the accident of my birth (which my parents assure me was no accident, but in the cosmic sense of accident of birth). - the time of my birth--sure, the Renaissance must have been thrilling, and the Industrial Revolution was a dramatic elbow in historys curve, and to be in college for the 1960s wouldve been a trip, but . . . antibiotics, vaccines, cable TV, the Internet, good science fiction and comic book movies, gay marriage, no military draft . . . take the long view, folks . . . in the really long view, were in an interglacial period, so theres that . . . but lets get our act together--dystopian fiction isnt descriptive of our era, but it is a warning . . . - the place of my birth--as critical as I can be of our domestic and foreign policies, I am grateful to have been born in the United States--where I can be critical and satirical and snarky . . . where I can exhort our leaders and citizens to forge the America that Langston Hughes reminds us never has been yet--/ And yet must be . . . without fear of reprisal (right . . . ?) . . . - the genetic lottery of my birth--by which I mean avoiding the snake eyes of so many physical and neurochemical maladies and having just enough adversity to add character : ) and lets face it, if Id been born to be tall, blond, and blue-eyed, Id be writing, after Blake, I am blond, but O, my soul is dark . . . I nominate Ruth Fiorello, Carolyn Swiers, and Tony Fiorello.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 10:24:37 +0000
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