In Marseille, a few days ago a settlement of mostly African migrants was burned. I think of the relative worthlessness of our bodies on a worldwide scale... Grenfell Tower, MOVE, Billie Holiday's "sudden smell of burning flesh." Baldwin talks about the Christian tradition of mortification of the flesh, how we have become the flesh of this nation- or even the world. These problems are as global as triangular trade, and as local as self-love. What it means to take care of ourselves, our hearts, and our minds. How many kinds of struggle there are- to not be consumed by the fires set in our communities, in our hearts, in our bodies- by years of neglect, by ontological violence... There are so many kinds of fires to tend to...