HOME-WORLD BOUND -
speculations on god, the world, and home

an excerpt from

Those Amazing Women with their Flying Dreams
present
THE SEXE-TETES

Things come together in strange ways, with strange twists and turns taking us
to the things that matter most to us - or more likely, with us twisting and turning
events to make them suit us better. I came to this exploration of home
when I was asked to take part in a project that had nothing to do with home -
and something inside me opened. I wrote, In My Own, My Chosen Home.

In this case, I was writing about the Sexe-Tetes, women in search of whatever
catches their attention - from sex, to helping homeless children and animals.
Light-hearted frivolous stuff, for the most part. And then, out popped
some serious pronouncements - about god and life, and our potential role
in making this world into that age-old dream, a heaven on earth.

Here is is.

A couple of the characters are making
some quick pronouncements
on god, the world, home,
and just about everything else.

Liona: It's my idea that, if there is a god, we're in the process of creating that creature: someone who takes care of things better than the survival of the fittest, natural selection, evolution. Animals hunt other animals – lots of cats even toy with the terrified creatures they're killing. Cancer eats up people, malaria kills millions, so do Aids, starvation, malnutrition. Cats have litter after litter of unwanted kittens – but until the past century, there was no way of stopping the overproduction. Women have so many unwanted babies, even when there's no love, no food, no home of any sorts. And some religions tell us this is the will of god.

Kay: So god, according to you, is a by-product of evolution?

Liona: I couldn’t have said it better myself. Yes, the kind of caring god people like to imagine. Though if there is anything out there, anything that loves and feels, it wants us to do our damnedest to turn earth, for the first time ever, into something closer to a well-tended, well-protected garden, into as safe a haven as possible for all who live here – into a true home.

Kay: I believe you're actually saying more than that god is, at best, a by-product: you're saying we’re god.

Liona: Nooooo. We’ve made way too much of a mess for that. War, Mass murder. Genocide. Huge holes in the ozone layer. You know the list. Still, while people have done a lot of damage, we’ve done nothing – so far at least – on the scale of what’s “natural.” Like, an all-natural comet smashed into earth, wiping out the dinosaurs, not to mention ninety per cent of all other species. Though with what we've become capable of – mass destruction of the everything on this planet – we're coming close to the natural disasters.

Kay:  At any rate, we didn’t create childbirth.

Liona: And many of us are trying, in our own small ways, to make things better. We hurt when we see hurt, and we try to find out how best to help.

Kay: . And maybe we need those some of those tools we've come up with recently - all that technology - to turn this place into more of a home place than it's ever been, if enough of us just keep trying. When I pay attention to the news, t’s overwhelming, for me at least, unless I do my little bit. Then the heart opens.

Liona: To make the world into what so many people have dreamed it could be, a safe place for all of us – that's our biggest project, the biggest human project ever undertaken, I'd say. Home-world bound.

And with that music starts.
Their song -
There's a World in My Arms

Elsa
2003

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