the road home

welcome ☕️

[longroadhomesblog]

made my first loaf of bread yesterday. I feel so fulfilled by making things in my home; everyone should try it.

[1i1ium-cand1dum]

The Northern Lights 1: Howard Russell Butler (1856-1934) 2,3,4: Sydney Laurence (1865-1940)

[kosmogrl]

life changing experience: girl listens to song she hasn't heard in years. it brings back all the emotions she felt back then.

[lone-nyctophile]

[feral-ballad]

peeling my heart & giving the other half to you

[feral-ballad]

Mohammed El-Kurd, from Rifqa; “Rifqa”

[Text ID: “I cried—not for the house / but for the memories I could have had inside it.”]

[luthienne]

Mahmoud Darwish, from Journal of an Ordinary Grief (tr. from the Arabic by Ibrahim Muhawi)

[requiem-on-water]

Stein Egil Liland

[flowerytale]

Mahmoud Darwish, from “Mural”, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems (tr. by Munir Akash & ‎Carolyn Forché)

[soracities]

Chase Berggrun, "Addressable Thou", pub. The Brooklyn Rail [ID'd]

[luthienne]

currently reading:

except for palestine: the limits of progressive politics by marc lamont hill & mitchell plitnick

palestine: a socialist introduction, ed. by sumaya awad & brian bean

on my non-fiction reading list:

the question of palestine, edward said

the hundred years’ war on palestine, rashid khalidi

palestinian identity, rashid khalidi

ten myths about israel, ilan pappé

the ethnic cleansing of palestine, ilan pappé

on palestine, noam chomsky & ilan pappé

blaming the victims: spurious scholarship and the palestinian question, ed. by edward said & christopher hitchens

the case for sanctions against israel, ed. by audrea lim

justice for some: law and the question of palestine, noura erakat

freedom is a constant struggle, angela davis

the butterfly's burden, mahmoud darwish

on my fiction reading list:

minor detail, adania shibli

enter ghost, isabella hammad

salt houses, hala alyan

men in the sun, ghassan kanafani

[poeticislam]

One of 400 Expelled Palestinians with his daughter after His Return Home, Deir El-Balah Camp, Gaza, Palestine, 1995. 

Taken by Samer Mohdad. 

[ferrantte]

tablescapeluvr

[weltenwellen]

Henri Cole, from "My Amaryllis"

[metamorphesque]

Vera Pavlova, A Weight on My Back (tr. Steven Seymour)

[longroadhomesblog]

Think Of Them

do you think about them?

the children while they played?

thinking the land was safe?

thinking they belonged?

thinking they were loved by the world?

did you ever think about them?

before the genocide?

think back to the time..

when the rain fell, instead of bombs.

think back to the time,

the olive trees were strong and mighty.

Do you ever think about the time?

the time when everyone is free?

Oppressors weeping for the Oppressor that died?

While we rejoice in the smell of freedom?

Dancing on their graves, forgetting about them

As they forgot about the children.

There will be a time.

-mella saab

[geryone]

The Nation's Saddest Love Poems, Sam J. Grudgings