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Thank you, Alison.

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So your weather
is a big surprise.

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So I brought a little pink
dress to wear today but can

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you hear me here?

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I'm going to begin with just
the last part of a long poem

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I wrote called "Fog," which
was written in collaboration

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with a Japanese-American dancer
named Theodora Yoshikawa.

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I use fog in it to think
about the relationships

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with people between people
and the densities of it,

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and here's the last part.

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"They counted her more
accurate and more inaccurate

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memories as black
and white stones.

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The more accurate
memories turned out

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to be white on the
outside, but they

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were unconditioned by the
desire to form story out

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of her memory.

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Continuing story the way we
wish this space and light

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to continue.

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Therefore we appreciate
the fog as the power

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to make the space continue
beyond the single perception,

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into raw material or youth of
the body like a body of light.

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It deserves now at
the top of her head.

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Now five lights into her heart.

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Now it dissolves into her body.

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Her friends dissolve into light.

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They dissolve into
her family, which

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seems to dissolve
into clouds that

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were already full of light.

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It is not so much the quality
or brightness of light

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or her understanding of this
light as the number of times

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she dissolves.

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The faster she can dissolve
into the space, the better.

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It is almost as if the
complete dark would be ideal."