Your understanding of names as part of our identity resonates with me, I think there is minor prophecy in our name as part of our character (personality.) Maybe generational trauma rooted from the Holocaust crosses our internal wiring so we're programmed to resist our parent's teaching, or maybe like the "el" part of Azriel, he is what was, what is and what will be, and he will only recognize the incongruency you recognize when/if his children go counter to his teaching.
hesitate to "like" a piece which must have been so wrenching and heartbreaking to write even as it must have shored up the conviction that we disagree, grapple with, evolve, grow with fiercest pace amongst the ones we love unconditionally
such a simple beautiful and powerful distillation of the meaning of history, whether it fades, altruism in conflict with generational loyalty the bridges which must be visualised first as the engineering is so abstract, complex....
i watched "The Zookeeper's Wife" the other night and in just that miniscule slice of Nazi-occupied Warsaw horror is contained worlds of pain sacrifice courage and as you say the roulette wheel which determined who survived (and most likely went on to found their own country) and who did not.... as crucial as 1939 is as a tragic marker it is 1948 this new generation might need to re-visit, not as an excuse for which are surely war crimes occurring each day on both sides but to more fully digest the hearts of those closer to that time where oral history made it seem more immediate, when extinction was a very real possibilty .... pulling anything out of here for a re-stack would be entirely out of context this needs to be absorbed without any of at least my own subjective dubious advertisement
I know I read an early draft of this, so the material is not completely new to me. But I have to say it's really powerful as a post!
Your understanding of names as part of our identity resonates with me, I think there is minor prophecy in our name as part of our character (personality.) Maybe generational trauma rooted from the Holocaust crosses our internal wiring so we're programmed to resist our parent's teaching, or maybe like the "el" part of Azriel, he is what was, what is and what will be, and he will only recognize the incongruency you recognize when/if his children go counter to his teaching.
hesitate to "like" a piece which must have been so wrenching and heartbreaking to write even as it must have shored up the conviction that we disagree, grapple with, evolve, grow with fiercest pace amongst the ones we love unconditionally
such a simple beautiful and powerful distillation of the meaning of history, whether it fades, altruism in conflict with generational loyalty the bridges which must be visualised first as the engineering is so abstract, complex....
i watched "The Zookeeper's Wife" the other night and in just that miniscule slice of Nazi-occupied Warsaw horror is contained worlds of pain sacrifice courage and as you say the roulette wheel which determined who survived (and most likely went on to found their own country) and who did not.... as crucial as 1939 is as a tragic marker it is 1948 this new generation might need to re-visit, not as an excuse for which are surely war crimes occurring each day on both sides but to more fully digest the hearts of those closer to that time where oral history made it seem more immediate, when extinction was a very real possibilty .... pulling anything out of here for a re-stack would be entirely out of context this needs to be absorbed without any of at least my own subjective dubious advertisement
no part could exist without the other
take care