Ever since I’ve been here, tending to this wreck of a place,
my anger’s become a mountain. I scale it every day.
Good for the muscles, they say. Poison for the mind. (you)
Need to lie down for a while, rest those bones. Amazing you’re still alive…
I have been feeling so much happiness over the past few days. It’s not that I do not feel fear in this chaotic era of corona pandemics. Supermarket shelves emptied by panicked hands, police squads patrolling empty streets, overwhelmed medical staff, curfews… resuscitate harrowing hours of human history…
PEPA: I stopped farming a long time ago. Hurt my back.
And the fish – I leave them alone now.
SARA: You’ve given up?
PEPA: I don’t give up on nature.
Perhaps nature has given up on me. Like with you…
Well, what interests me is really about finding beauty in what we do ourselves. I find any object that we create ourselves to be more beautiful than what we buy as ready-made. And then it becomes a habit. It’s like when you have kids…