This sounds interesting. On February 8 we will be on coastal Canada [Vancouver Island] visiting the grandsons in Victoria and house searching for retirement as a new way of being ourselves. Fascinated with your poem “I’m not angry with you” and need to reason through my American birth, my Canadian adulthood, our,(and especially Leslie’s) deep connection to her Canadian / Lebanese departmental coordinator who (secretly) could persuade us to stay here in the minus 25 C winter temperatures of the dying-economy of oil-rich Alberta just because it contradicts EVERY belief we’ve clung to since meeting in a “Native Plants of California” community college class in Oakland CA 1973.

We choose because we are assumed to be autonomous characters of 60’s San Francisco scene yet determined by the distant and persuasive call of odd “strangers” so unfamiliar and yet known as Maha Bali from Cairo–a city so incomprehensibly so big and so intimately connected that when our younger daughter visited she found friends from so far away there and who-would-have-known(?) THERE way her HERE?.

Here’s hoping your students find us and we can learn from them.

Another thing And it could be many:

Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference
Better Copy: https://www.colorado.edu/odece/sites/default/files/attached-files/rba09-sb4converted_8.pdf

We have chosen each other
and the edge of each others battles
the war is the same
if we lose
someday women’s blood will congeal
upon a dead planet
if we win
there is no telling
we seek beyond history
for a new and more possible meeting
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Thanks Maha
Scott
Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference
Better Copy: https://www.colorado.edu/odece/sites/default/files/attached-files/rba09-sb4converted_8.pdf