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=> touched by an angel in a non-religious, cultural sort of way...
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"It's pouring rain in San Francisco. My trousers are sopped and the sky is an oppressive low gray. On the street you'd see me smiling under my umbrella. My journal is with me. I am sitting above the street at Metro, surrounded by glass beyond which homes crowd the surrounding hills. Shops slant up the avenue. I am able to celebrate from up here, adoring many people, many places, moments, and hues. I note so much frivolity and humor in the American culture. Sitcoms, standup comics, cartoons, etc. In contrast to all this I feel we Assyrians are so serious. Sometimes I am so aware that I come from a struggling people without a country, without a home, and that we live under the falling shadow of a fading language, harboring undying memories of revolutions, of war, and constant immigration. I feel I will never be free of the Assyrian responsibility to preserve our "way" no matter how long I live in the States, how immaculate my English, how Americanized I may become. I feel the tugging of every antiquated string from which I remain suspended in the Assyrian Diaspora. There is a constant, still, and deep river that separates me from my surroundings, my American friends. A river in which my family and I are perpetually dunked, contained, reminded, and baptized, but never permitted to cross. I may have occasion to touch the banks of the river, even stroll them, sunbathe there, but inevitably I have to return to the other side to breathe, to remember, to be who I cannot escape being… Assyrian. One should always break away from home. Even if for a little while. It is essential." Taken from http://home.comcast.net/~emil32/html/jan98.html --------------------- |
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