I fly at midnight for Nepal, so there was time for a final day in Australia.
This is the mist on the Mount (Macedon) on my final morning here.
I'm feeling a little out of touch with the homeland - and more, doubtless, to come. By the time I learned of the Supreme Court's Voting Act and gay marriage rulings, the news was already cool and complicated by layers of commentary - which, I couldn't help myself, I turned to instead of trying to articulate my own reaction. I wished I'd been in space with other people affected so I - we - could react in real time. Yesterday's shocking (yet, sadly, unsurprising) not guilty verdict of Trayvon Martin's killer felt even more like this - though I found out about it in time to see the first reactions flashing through the web. It feels almost like a dereliction of duty not to have to stand on American soil as a beneficiary of its enduring racism and seek words, gestures, actions that don't sound hollow. Something to take with me to Kailash.
This is the mist on the Mount (Macedon) on my final morning here.
I'm feeling a little out of touch with the homeland - and more, doubtless, to come. By the time I learned of the Supreme Court's Voting Act and gay marriage rulings, the news was already cool and complicated by layers of commentary - which, I couldn't help myself, I turned to instead of trying to articulate my own reaction. I wished I'd been in space with other people affected so I - we - could react in real time. Yesterday's shocking (yet, sadly, unsurprising) not guilty verdict of Trayvon Martin's killer felt even more like this - though I found out about it in time to see the first reactions flashing through the web. It feels almost like a dereliction of duty not to have to stand on American soil as a beneficiary of its enduring racism and seek words, gestures, actions that don't sound hollow. Something to take with me to Kailash.