For a spot of refreshment – Taslima tweeted me one of the landscape photos she took on Sunday. It’s a view of the gorge, looking north toward Lake Ontario – I think that might be the lake in the distance, but I’m not sure. I loved this view.
It had rained like hell most of the afternoon, but had stopped at this point.
It looks like someplace in Brazil, practically tropical!!!
Well you know how those East coast states are – leafy. That riparian area is very leafy. It was purdee.
Ophelia, you haven’t said much yet (or if you did I missed it) about what it was like hanging out with Taslima. What’s her mental state like these days? I imagine being practically chased out of your adopted country at machete-point must be traumatic. Is she just recovering, or relieved, or excited to be here, or what? She’s a hero to so many of us!
She seems quite amazingly not-frazzled. What it’s like hanging out with her is what it’s like hanging out with any good friend on a good day.
The thing that troubles her most is being away from the people who need her – the people of India and all of south Asia. Her work is there. They know her there.
But moment to moment – she laughs, she gossips, she takes photo after photo after photo.