Silver Threads
Still walking, still waking
lifelines - carla and eleanor
Show Description:
Happy winter solstice! In these darker days, it feels an apt time to shine a light on our past so that we may better illuminate a future — manifested by imagination, holding joy, hope, fear, and despair as we still walk, still wake.
carla and Eleanor share some of their own stories as we reflect on previous episodes and consider the road ahead—both in terms of personal projects, and systemic shifts.
Music for the show: Floodlight by Eleanor’s former Band Rooftop Revolutionaries.
BIO
carla bergman and Eleanor Goldfield are Grounded Futures contributors.
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Quotes said in the Show:
Fred Moten
“I don’t think that scale is our friend, it’s our enemy. how to get together on a small scale with patience, ethical regard for one another… maybe this renewal of our habits of assembly happens on a small scale.”
James Baldwin
“The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union leaders don’t. Only poets.”
Tarkovsky
“But show a toe sticking out of a hole in a sock to a poet and it is enough to produce an image of the whole world in him.”
Albert Einstein
“Imagination encircles the world.”
Audrey Lorde
“There are no new ideas, only new ways of having them felt.”
Nietzsche
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”
About Silver Threads: still walking, still waking
carla bergman and Eleanor Goldfield interview long term organizers about their watershed moments, what they have learned along the way, and how they maintain their hope on this path; dreaming and building emergent worlds for a present and future that is anchored in justice and freedom for all.