Kalliope X
A Cloud Floating in a Piece of Paper
If you are a poet you can see a cloud floating in a piece of paper. You need clouds and rain to water the trees that make paper. Therefore the cloud and paper inter-are.
This is one of my favourite Thich Nhat Hanh sayings, demonstrating the inter connectedness of all things. In this memoir I explore the connectedness between many people and events that inter-are with me. Their stories make up parts of mine.
Helpless
When we see a child sleeping peacefully we say 'Spava ko zaklan' which roughly translates as, 'The child is sleeping as if its throat is cut.' When we joke we say, 'Da bog da crko', which means 'I hope you die.' When it is a windy day we say, 'Ubiće te vjetar', 'The wind will kill you.' There is much use of 'I’m going to kill myself', or 'I’m going to kill someone else'.