Tikkun (https://www.tikkun.org/author/a_metzgerd/)
Deena Metzger reviews the novel “Darwin’s Ghosts” by Ariel Dorfman, not quite a coming of age story or hero’s journey, but a journey where a young boy must learn who he is outside of the superficial life to which he presumed he was entitled
Deena Metzger’s talk to Beyt Tikkun Synagogue on Erev Rosh Hashanah.
How can we protect what we love? Deena Metzger reviews latest book by naturalist, Susan Cerulean, who faces the extremity of her father’s Alzheimer’s and the fate of Florida’s shorebirds — two perfect storms.
Our human way of life is destroying life on this planet. The coronavirus is another manifestation of this process.
Deena Metzger calls Dahr Jamail’s new book a record of “the terrible knowledge, moral anguish, and great love of a journalist who embeds himself in the physical reality that the natural world is suffering.”
Deena Metzger captures the grief and pain we all experience living at a time of global extinction and offers the only solution – to stop extinction.
Ariel Dorfman is one of our era’s many citizens of nowhere, and Feeding on Dreams is the story of his exile from Chile. It was an accident, a gift of destiny, or a curse, that he was not at La Moneda, the Presidential Palace, on September 11, 1973, the day of the coup by General Augusto Pinochet. That day, Salvador Allende died and Dorfman received a permanent enemy to orient him in his disoriented life.
Climbing the tree had not been a thoughtless or impetuous action. The girl had taken a Jew’s harp, a handful of dried cranberries, a scrap of blue leather, feathers, a vial of silver and turquoise beads, a needle, some thread, other secret objects, some sacred, all carefully balanced in the lap of an oversized T-shirt that the girl turned alternately into a desk, a knapsack, a handkerchief for blowing her nose, while another T-shirt became a bandanna, a snood, and a white banner that declared most adamantly: “I will not surrender.”