Hi Gilberto
Thank you for your good explanation. I think the term could as well describe my life as well. I am a 74 year old man and a Baha'i since 1953, and have never become rooted in the soil of any one place. I was born in Minneapolis Minnesota and now have my home in China.
When you have completed your poem I'd like to see it.
Peace and Unity
Roger
At 01:00 PM 1/18/2005, you wrote:
Subject: Re: My people are hydroponic From: Gilberto Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:51:06 -0500 X-Message-Number: 8
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:02:49 +0800, Roger Borseth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Gilberto
> I have been enjoying your discussions with the Baha'i friends, but I am > curious what does your signature mean "My people are hydroponic"?
I sometimes do poetry slams and perform at open mikes. One piece I'm working on (which isn't finished yet) has that as the first line. It was just an idea I've been mulling over. Some people construct their identity in a way which is really rooted in a particular place over a period of many many generations (like Native Americans, Palestinians, Australian aborigines, white people in Europe). Very much rooted in soil.
Even many immigrants have a single place which is the "home country" which they go back to or might look back to as a reference. And again their identities are really associated with a particular place.
Me personally, I don't think of myself that way (or at least, when I do it gets more complicated than that) so I thought the concept of hydroponic people (hydroponic plants grow without soil) really seemed to fit and it was an idea I wanted to play around with.
Another example of hydroponic people would be Gypsies. Or perhaps non-Zionist Jews.
Peace
Gilberto
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"My people are hydroponic"
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