#9: Deixis Downlink
A monthly correspondence: August 2023
Deixis Journal Archive
Featured work by Joelius Dubois Porter in Deixis Journal No. 1
On Our Radar
In Deep Thought: 11 Questions to Ask Yourself
What was the first time you experienced euphoria?
Is good intuition a product of experience or some other part of the self?
After your own self, who is at the center of your world?
Who is at the center of THE world?
When was the last time you got angry and your anger felt righteous?
Does evil’s presence in the world invalidate the existence of a creator, or is that a question of the nature of said creator?
If you accept life to be difficult, does peace become your natural state?
Have you ever thought a perfect thought that solely belonged to you?
Why would someone take advice from you?
For what reason would you consider a person’s opinion?
Is the life you’re living a life that you want to live or a life that you can?
Deixis Book Club
Not a real book club (yet), just a bit about what we’re currently reading.
Halima recently read the play, The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
The thing that I discovered while reading plays is that the dialogue does the world-building for you. There is a truck, a piano, and characters that carry themselves with the breadth of life that gives way for hairs on your neck to stand when a ghost is mentioned. The play is about this, and a long standing argument between brother and sister who have different plans when it comes to the piano. One wants to sell, and one wants to remember: the piano is engraved and carved with the faces of their enslaved ancestors.
You want to continue talking and participating in these lively and unlively conversations. It is no wonder that this is a Pulitzer-prize winning play, because I could survive off of the depths of my imagination granting me an image of this wondrous journey into the lives of the Charles family and their ideas of legacy and history; of wealth and survival. I encourage everyone to read it, I loved it.
An Excerpt from August Wilson’s play
“See now...I'll tell you something about me. I done strung along and strung along. Going this way and that. Whatever way would lead me to a moment of peace. That's all I want. To be as easy with everything. But I wasn't born to that. I was born to a time of fire.”
Deixis News
You can watch Bekele, our new short film on YouTube!
Hope you enjoy!
Bekele
Written & narrated by Bilal Mohamed
Animated and illustrated by Avia Rose Ramm
Music by Hahmez (James Sud)