[-empyre-] ka kite ano

[su b <suballard@optusnet.com.au>]

Is is possible to sum up something so un-summ-able? For me empyre this 
month has been framed almost exactly by a month of travel to and from 
new zealand and the attendant reunification with places, locations, 
people and smells  that that entails. This is my first night back in 
sydney, and i find myself even more uncertain as to what 'we' have been 
(are) up to in aotearoa/nz, and particularly what was meant by 'our' 
first collective interjection into empyre-space. I am aware of all the 
eyes I have talked to over the past month, eyes that have questioned 
the discussion and its tangents, eyes that have spoken to me, made 
suggestions, and started new conversations. This offline murmuring has 
been challenging, and has made me wonder if the issue is one of 
exposure.  If it has felt as messy for others as it has felt for me, 
perhaps that is just to be expected. 'We' have exposed ourselves for 
the small, foundering, uncertain, naïve, distracted, (even 
disagreeable) community that we are. I'd hate for that to change.
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su