Exile

It is not an instruction to stay in the punishment.

Exile is listed in the Torah as a curse, not a calling.

Nobody reads the curses in Deuteronomy as a job description.

Second, look at what Jewish communities outside the land were when there was a center.

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Banishment by Siegfried Sassoon.

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I am banished from the patient men who fight.

Definitely, because I think there are several interesting points in the book, but one of them to me was this presentation of a third exile, right? And so, you know, in your answer to that question, you sort of bring us to the first two, in a sense.

But the third exile... bridging contemporary communities with this past history.

And so what for you does the Third Exile refer to and what does placing contemporary migration alongside these earlier histories of displacement help us to understand about the Garifuna experience?

Yeah, I really thank Sarah England who made that contribution to the book.

The concept of the Third Exile is an analytical framework developed by her, Sarah England.

She expands upon a term that was originally coined by Ofrene, the Organisation Fraternelle Nigra de Honduras.

which describes the widespread migration of Hondurans, making the dangerous journey through Mexico to seek asylum in the United States of America, often with very, very little hope of returning to their villages in Honduras, except as deportees.

I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing Eyes - I wonder if It weighs like Mine - Or has an easier Size.

I wonder if They bore it long Or did it just begin - I could not tell the Date of Mine - It feels so old a Pain - I wonder if it hurts to live And if They have to try - And whether - could They choose between It would not be to die - I note that Some - gone patient long - At length renew their Smile - An imitation of a Light That has so little Oil - I wonder if when Years have piled Some thousands on the Harm That hurt them early - such a Lapse Could give them any Balm - Or would they go on aching still Through Centuries of Nerve - Enlightened to a larger Pain In contrast with the Love - The Grieved are many, I am told - There is the various Cause - Death is but one, and comes but once And only nails the Eyes - There's Grief of Want, and Grief of Cold - A sort they call Despair - There's Banishment from native Eyes In sight of na- native Air - And though I may not guess the kind Correctly - yet to me A piercing Comfort it affords In passing Cavalry - To note the Fashions of the Cross And how they're mostly worn - Still fascinated to presume That some are like my own.

That was Sunu Chandy reading Emily Dickinson.

Sunu P. Chandy is a social justice activist, including through her work as a poet and a civil rights attorney.

It's a difficult process.

Exile is a difficult process.

But if you frame it properly and you are not just idle and whining, but using it to your benefit, you can come out of it with something you didn't have before, something good that you didn't have before.

What you just said reminded me of a section of Seneca where he says, fire proves gold and hardship proves virtuous men.

True, you are now prevented from visiting a certain portion of the planet, but before exile, you didn't travel to every piece of it anyway, nor did you converse with every single person.

Besides, it is your character, not your geographic location, that causes happiness or unhappiness.

Exile actually can help you to practice virtue as it increases your leisure time and all the false friends will leave you alone.

Resourceful, hardworking individuals will do well wherever they find themselves.

An interesting thing, though she was not Jewish, and Trotsky had no affinity for Judaism, is that a Jewish chaplain did officiate their wedding in his prison cell.

They go into exile together.

Exile in Siberia at that time was not great, but it was far better than it was later on in the 20th century under Stalin.

Apparently, the punishment of exile in Siberia at that time was basically, "We're just gonna send you really far away.

Once you're there, you can have friends and hang out and read, and-"