As he dies without
anyone he knows, the nurse
caring for him weeps.
Domesticity: Stephon Harris and the Performance of Empathy
Roy Herndon Smith https://www.ted.com/talks/stefon_harris_there_are_no_mistakes_on_the_bandstand?language=en I wept as I listened to this performance. Stefon Harris describes and demonstrates how jazz happens, how the performers in an ensemble are continually empathically (“empathy” is Harris's word, in an interview on NPR's Morning Edition on March 30, 2020, for what is happening) listening, attuning themselves, and responding to each…
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COVID-19 Diary: 3/29/20
What I am missing,
in the eerie quiet of
social distancing:
COVID-19 Diary 3/28/20
In refugee camps,
detention centers, slums, bombed
and flooded cities,
In and of the world 43
Shake out a sweater—
dust motes like stars dancing in
rivers of sunlight.
Domesticity: The COVID-19 Crisis
The COVID-19 crisis exposes the truth that domesticity, defined as “home or family life” (Apple Dictionary 2.2.2 2005-2017), is as fundamental to human existence as body and mind.
