Edouard Glissant

Édouard Glissant - Do It Number 19 Teach, in other words: learn with.

To live the landscape with passion. To bring it out of the indistinct, to search it, to light it up among ourselves. To know what it means within ourselves. To take to the earth this clear knowledge.

If the solution seems difficult to you, maybe even unfeasible, don’t go shouting out of the blue that it is wrong. Don’t use the real to justify your failings. Instead, realize your dreams in order to deserve your reality.

Exalt the heat and grow stronger from it. Your thinking will blaze. Air-conditioners ought to be detested.

But the blaze fades away. Dwell in the continuum. Let’s tie the ropes again, and search. To be earthen and heavy.

To vomit daily from this common vomiting.
O fallen, isn’t it time you submit to the black compost such pettiness that only awaits your blade.
If you lack skies to dare living, go deeper, leave the spark of words, search into the root.

Then, as in the many childhoods you have given us, you will speak of doing.