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Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.

Susan Griffin

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Susan Griffin
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 26
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Environmentalist
Feminist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
LA
California
Susan Griffin
Life
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Dying
Becoming
Already
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Erasure
Someone
Occurring
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Yes we are devilish that is true we cackle. Yes we are dark like the soil and wild like the animals. And we turn to each other and stare into this darkness. We find it beautiful. We find this darkness irresistible. We cease all hiding.
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How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.
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Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
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I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.
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Society, like nature, is one body, really.
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Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.
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The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.
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... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.
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Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.
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Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.
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What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
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But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.
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Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.
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Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being.
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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
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A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
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At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.
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One can find traces of every life in each life.
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Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.
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And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.
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