I finally did a thing that I’ve wanted to do for a quite a while. Years ago, one of my biggest joys was making collages. My first favorite was when I managed to create a Tower of Babel. Not long after came the Compass of Maps. I stopped for many reasons. The poor Compass ofContinue reading “Kedema Collage Art”
Category Archives: Obsessions
Gifting Myself
All I know is, I promise to heed my inner compass, trust myself, bring my fire.
Multicultural as the New Multiracial
It’s less about belonging to a color than belonging to a culture.
We are a threat to the national identity
In addition to my beloved Poets of Babel, I’ve started a new page called “We are a threat to the national identity.” It was an impromptu reaction to this article about the ban of a book (Borderlife by Dorit Rabinyan) in which there is a Jewish-Palestinian love affair. But honestly, this is really the resultContinue reading “We are a threat to the national identity”
Split in Two: between Gifts and Blind Fury
“Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.” ~ Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death “Fame in theContinue reading “Split in Two: between Gifts and Blind Fury”
Pico Iyer Asks: “Where is Home?” I Say: “Home is Babel”
Pico Iyer asks: “Where is home?” I say: “Home is Babel.” In this amazing TED talk (I know, I know, ALL TED Talks are amazing, but this one is special!) Pico Iyer just articulated everything I already knew but am just beginning to coherently express about myself. I am debating whether or not to tellContinue reading “Pico Iyer Asks: “Where is Home?” I Say: “Home is Babel””
Cameo! Studio 6 End of the Year Recap Video
Just for fun! Here is a recap of the end of the year performance that I participated in with Studio 6 at the Gerard Behar Theater in Jerusalem (I danced Flamenco, Belly dancing, & Salsa). I’ve got a cameo from the Salsa performance in the video. Can you find me? 😉 …more news comingContinue reading “Cameo! Studio 6 End of the Year Recap Video”
“Future Perfect,” My First Poetry Slam
About a month ago, I did my first poetry slam and first spoken word performance on stage. I was petrified from the moment I agreed to do it…but I knew that I had to. I’ve wanted to for so long. And even after actually doing it and feeling like I could do it again andContinue reading ““Future Perfect,” My First Poetry Slam”
On “How to Avoid Work: A 1949 Guide to Doing What You Love” & a Response to Mother
You know you’re in the right place when you just glow from it. Being in the flow, in the zone, it has as many names as the names of god. I have a firm belief in the gifts given to each, in the muses that come and go at their own will, in the artContinue reading “On “How to Avoid Work: A 1949 Guide to Doing What You Love” & a Response to Mother”
“In Media Res” or a ModPoetic Collage: On a Vision, a Course, a Liberation, a Block, and a “Way” to “Eunoia”
*(Note to reader: This entire piece is an experiment. It is an exercise in “how,” that is, it’s not so much what I am saying but how I am saying it. I try to explain what ModPo has taught me by using it, drawing on elements from proto-modernism, the edge of modernist poetics, found language, spontaneous prose,Continue reading ““In Media Res” or a ModPoetic Collage: On a Vision, a Course, a Liberation, a Block, and a “Way” to “Eunoia””
Shoshana Sarah 