It’s been almost a month since my last post… What happened? Life. Life happened in a big way. Establishing new routines, language classes, new friendships, work. Ah yes, work. So much I want to say, to write about.
When I stand on our rooftop, I am filled with an enormous sense of peace and calm. A feeling that is so welcomed now. At night, there aren’t many lights in our district. Electricity is expensive, so many houses are dark at night. There arn’t many street lights, and the school yards beside and across the street from us are dark. I can see Orion, which also gives me reassurance. It is the same sky that my loved ones look at, we see the same stars even on the other side of the world. When things are so incomprehensibly complicated, the stars steady me.
That’s so interesting, C.
I was just staring at Orion last night while walking my doggins. I’ve been noticing that constellation a lot lately. I wonder if I was reading a message on the sky from you…
As Lilla Watson, an Aboriginal woman in Australia has stressed, we need to work together to correct current injustices. She said:
If you have come here to help me,
you are wasting our time.
If you have come here because your liberation is bound up with mine,
then let us work together.