Santa asks: What do you want now, child? I want the rightful return to me and to his home of my deeply loved son, Rui, who at any moment day or night – whether I’m laughing, crying, meditating, desperate to escape into some reverie, raging with bursting-at-the-seams angst at lies and unjust lives for me, … More Lament 2014
“Freud is inviting us to distinguish between something he calls remembering, which is presumably veracious and potentially transformative, and something called an action, a repeated action in which the so-called patient – like an actor with a script, or a figure in a dream – unwittingly performs something from his past. That he knows he … More Remember, Remember, Remember
I just tell myself: This is part one. Agonizing even over what I can say on Rui’s birthday has plagued me for some time. It sets me an un-meetable deadline every year, along with the anniversary of his abduction in the middle of June. The pressure to speak wisely and feelingly builds, but the truth … More Remember, Remember, Sixteenth of November
*You* can now buy the DVD of From The Shadows: A documentary about Japanese international child abducton. Awarded an honorable mention at the 2012 Philadelphia Film Festival. All persons, advocates and otherwise, concerned with globalization and international law, with family law, with respect for children’s human rights – including the right to their parents and … More The Dilatory State: Stand Back and Watch From the Shadows
For Rui Boy 