minus-Cosmopolitan

  Pittsburgh is a city which has no cosmopolitan sensibility. I think any Californian who migrates to Pittsburgh will reach a point of uneasiness. All those cosmopolitan vibes which flow so freely throughout the Bay area are thoroughly appreciated and missed. In Pittsburgh there’s no flowing of energies but in it’s place racial, social, and cultural fragmentation. I don’t think this city was ever transformed by the civil rights movement and people seem totally unaware to it’s underlying present reality. Racial, social, and cultural divides plague the city and those eccentric transients which sometimes bloom into life seem such a rarity. Foreign students travel from all across the world to attend universities in this city but that’s about it. Professionals and students, but very little artists or art.  I’m thankful that Haifa and San Francisco are on the horizon. Pittsburgh is an o.k. place to study but it’s just bane these days.

Krushed

  I don’t even live in Israel and already I am tired of the war. I’m in no position to realize the distress it has caused to both Palestine and Israel alike. I can only imagine that my own feelings are intensified and there is undeniable suffering. Where’s all the love at?

  Krushed. Back to the program. I’m currently looking forward to Hiroki’s arrival on the 31st. I find the Japanese spirit to be one of the most amazing and sacred in this universe. A place where the aesthetic of everydayness lives.  

 I’m happy there’s love in some of us… you know who you are