...where, she said, the Maltese, with death-defying insouciance quite beyond comprehension, drove neither on the left nor on the right, but always on the shady side of the road... — Makalé Faber Cullen

Most of my early professional work was ethnographic, having received doctoral training in anthropology. I later began crafting stories with materials, sounds and light to express what is beyond language. I still work in relationship with people but mostly, nowadays, with plants and soils whose lessons are far worthier of our attention.

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Dec 17

Dec 17 ...where, she said, the Maltese, with death-defying insouciance quite beyond comprehension, drove neither on the left nor on the right, but always on the shady side of the road...

Makalé Cullen

Stray Birds

I remember only one odd scrap. I think Katy, or Lizzie, was describing a holiday on Malta where, she said, the Maltese, with death-defying insouciance quite beyond comprehension, drove neither on the left nor on the right, but always on the shady side of the road.

— W.G. Sebald. The Rings of Saturn (p18)

I reread The Rings of Saturn at least once a year to reset my cadence for being.

And this film, PATIENCE (After Sebald) directed by Grant Gee, is also among the seven most artful films I’ve ever seen.