We are in such a midnight moment right now, just as that which was about to engulf Granada and Lorca. But that murmur of beauty, of humanity and our connection to the whole world will always exist and endure.

What a powerful way to demonstrate that you can have a deep commitment to a place, a culture, a history and a language and use that connection to connect to the whole world and to all humanity. To see differences as complementary, a richer harmony.

like Granada, which has a name in the universe and a crown of glory….a place of historical and poetic frontiers, and a murmur of pure beauty”

Perhaps we all have deep in our memory, the heartbeat of our mothers, the first sound we hear.

Rather than dimming with the passage of time, her memory and her smile and her presence seems to resonate louder, as if I’ve put my hand on the the pure pulse of the universe, a heartbeat that lies under all things.

Ask me how I know this and why I was made into a refugee.

Anyway, nationalism does not spare those who have grown up in the heart of a community with all the deep links of history, sentiment, family and land. Nationalism looks constantly for traitors and finds them in any who are willing to stand for human beings over grandiose anti-human politics