🇦🇱 X 🧿 JUST LIKE HEAVEN

little paradises take time Amor Fati ; Memento Mori

[fanteism]

“I can remember what it was like — what I did —, but I can’t feel like I was then.”

— Susan Sontag, from Reborn: Journals & Notebooks (1947-1963)

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the soul remembers

[heavyrain-dc]

“All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”

— Mitch Albom

[ni3ma]

O Allah gather our souls in Your paradise.

[vbdulrvhmvn]

﴿ أَعَدَّ ٱللَّهُ لَهُمْ جَنَّـٰتٍۢ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَـٰرُ ﴾

"Allah has prepared for them gardens beneath which rivers flow."

— At-Tawbah (9:89)

[lilium--bosniacum]

Little Palestine; Diary of a Siege (2021) dir. Abdallah Al Khatib

[fanteism]

“The secret of this journey is to let the wind / Blow its dust all over your body. / To let it go on blowing, to step lightly, lightly / All the way through your ruins…”

— James Wright, from Exile’s Home: The Poetry of James Wright; “A Dream of Burial,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[julaibib]

People in Gaza pray under the destroyed minaret.

[allah-is-enough-for-meeeeeee]

“..Bear with patience whatever befalls you..” (Qur'an 31:17) and “Be not sad, surely ALLAH سبحانه وتعالى  is with us.” (Qur'an 9:40)“

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[soracities]

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971), dir. Shuji Terayama

[fanteism]

“Come stay with what can’t stay. Trust only what fades away. […] Go leave with what’s not staying. Trust only the ebb-half of seas.”

— Peter Viereck, from Unthings (via violentwavesofemotion)

[luthienne]

“and I didn’t care / and I was alone / and there had been war, / and that thing (my soul) / was a lost star / or a lost boat / adrift,”

— H.D., from Collected Poems 1912-1944; “Child Poems: Dedication”

[fanteism]

“Between memory and the suitcase there is no solution but resistance. Justice, freedom, belonging, and worthiness are only proclaimed through resistance. They were not satisfied to rob you of everything, they also wanted to take away your sense of belonging, so that the battle may rage between you and your homeland and the homeland become a burden, a chain, and a pain. But you will not find freedom outside these chains, and you will not find ease or relief from the burden outside this pain. The homeland that is in your memory and in the cells of your body is entangled with the homeland in their fists and their “returning” suitcases.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, from “The Homeland: Between Memory and History,” Journal of an Ordinary Grief (Archipelago, 2010)

[hiraeeeth]

⠀⠀⠀ My father took this photo in Prishtina, Kosova after the War 1999.

I found this photo accidently in an old box and had to post it, it makes me feel so much.. 🌻

[observando]

“And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.”

— Simon Armitage

[streetsofkosovo]

Young boys and a flock of grazing sheep. Photo ID 296621. 01/01/1991. Mamurras, Albania. UN Photo/G Accascina. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/

[fanteism]

“What is homeland? To hold on to your memory – that is homeland.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, from “The Homeland: Between Memory and History,” Journal of an Ordinary Grief (Archipelago, 2010)