The dissonance of toast and jam

Found comforts for dark days

The Baayfalls by Jordan Casteel, Highline, NYC

I’ve been feeling the dissonance all week, I think a lot of us are. We try to make sense of the simple pleasure of going out for a latte or spreading jam on toast when people in Gaza and Israel are in present, unfolding danger, grief and trauma. The images haunt: I’ve heard multiple accounts of Palestinian f…