Word of the day, sublation. The situation where a tension between contradictory opposites is resolved by the addition of a new term which pushes the old opposition into its relation. To take away. 

 Liberal zionism is a fiction like neoliberal democracy. It's all the same narrative of hegemonic colonialism. 

 Obviously, there cannot be a zionist democracy. We're smarter than that.

 Medium of exchange. I'm reading about Tom McCarthy wondering if I read one of his six books, perhaps C, and maybe I need to check. I keep looking for the medium of exchange and at the same time realizing the medium is all around me, and also I'm the medium of exchange. It's as elemental as breathing, seeing, reading.

 Yesterday Olive was dashing from the dining room to the kitchen to see all the starlings on the fire escape. R. was doing laundry and when I went to the washtub oracle room there were so many exciting starlings, and then they all went silent looking up at the roof, and I think a hawk was watching, and many crows converged and then landed cawing in the cottonwood tree. This morning we saw a murmuration of starlings pursued by and eluding a hawk and it looked like the hawk was herding the murmuration and then they all disappeared.

 The theme of Empire is Genocide for the profit of the ruling class, but the underlying theme of nature is coexistence for the continuity of life. 

They say you don't belong here, you are invaders in this land, come from across the sea. Well and good. My grandparents were invaders too, though they were only children. Everyone is welcome who is here, no matter what they say. Everyone is one. Everyone who longs to be belongs.