“She’s an incredible writer and illustrator. All the pictures are of women holding things, physical things. But her narrative is that women hold half the living world. She writes things down that you may think about all the time but never share. “Okay, I’m not crazy. Other people think about the same things.” She doesn’t try to make things prettier than they are, but her colors are bright. There’s a drawing of her family who like to hold things before they were sent to Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
My grandparents and many of their siblings didn’t make it either. I know it’s a utopian idea, but why do we have borders? We are all humans on this planet. It’s incredible we are here to live this life. But year after year, all these wars. All the killing that goes on. This is my territory. This is your territory. I get that it’s from tribal times, you know, you have to protect your family. You have to protect the food in this piece of land. I grew up in Argentina but spent 10 years in Israel. While there, I was in the army as it’s mandatory for women also. Israel is such a small territory. It’s 18 times smaller than California. And yet, there’s non-stop fighting. I came here to California after. Came to another war between Democrats and Republicans. It’s so silly, the whole thing. Live and let live, we say right? Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Maybe we can’t do much, but you can keep the peace 5 feet around you. If everybody does that, there are no problems. Those are the types of ideas that should scale. Just keep the peace 5 feet around you.”
