[soracities]

“I’ve been thanking God for fear.”

“You have?”

‘This winter. One afternoon the bus was late with the children. My imagination was like a storm. I stood at the road, and I couldn’t get rid of all the terrible pictures. So I started thanking God for this fear, because it meant I love them so much. The sun was shining on the snow and pines, and I stood down there, thinking of what it would be like not to have that fear; not to love anyone so much you couldn’t imagine living on the earth without them […] I looked at all that beauty around me and I was grateful. I was still afraid, but the worst of it went out of me.”

—  Andre Dubus, “Out of the Snow”, Dancing After Hours

[elwenyere]

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

[achillesinhighheels]

art by Michael Carson

[newskinfortheoldceremony1974]

2025

ACTION IS THE ANTIDOTE TO DESPAIR

KEEP THE FAITH DO THE WORK

PASSION ABOVE ALL IS THE REMEDY AGAINST BOREDOM

EVERY DAY IS ALL THERE IS

WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

A hora da Estrela (Suzana Amaral, 1985)

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Les Nuits de la pleine lune (Éric Rohmer, 1984)

[altaring]

this morning I am thinking about the way a space becomes charged by repeated action. Like how would a room that has held a lot of prayers feel different from a concert venue? I'm thinking about your heartbeat imbuing the space in front and behind your chest with its signature and becoming an energy center. The way repeated thought changes your mental landscape, how can intention change the energetic landscape of a space without adding items? If you clap in the room you're in, the air will feel crisp..if you're sensitive to that anyway

[soracities]

Dunya Mikhail, from Diary of a wave outside the sea (trans. Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail) [ID'd]

[fotojournalismus]

Palestinian girls watch their teacher during a ballet class at Gaza college in Gaza City on September 3, 2012. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

[luthienne]

Arundhati Roy, ‘Our country has lost its moral compass’

[emmaharwoods]

decolonizepalestine.com is an easy to navigate website run by two palestinians which breaks down common myths about palestine and provides a reading list organized by a wide variety of categories ranging from history and culture to media and censorship. it’s a good starting point to use if you want to learn more about the modern day situation in palestine and understand the truth behind myths that have been perpetuated about israel’s occupation of palestine.

[emmaharwoods]

don’t just reblog this, please take time to actually read through the website. it’s the least you can do as palestinians are being killed by the thousands and world leaders are turning a blind eye to a genocide happening in real time. i’ve seen the headlines about the israeli airstrike on al-ahli hospital that killed hundreds of palestinians change in real time, with western media outlets refusing to call it what it is— a war crime. the tide seems to be shifting a little bit in regards to media making excuses for israel to commit these atrocities which is probably because of how much people are showing out for palestine.

please read and share and pray that we see a free palestine in our lifetimes.

[weltenwellen]

Athena Nassar, from "Love Is Not Always Song, but the Swelling"

[luthienne]

Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden; "Maybe, Because Winter is Late" (tr. from the Arabic by Fady Joudah)

[words-and-coffee]

Let me tell you a story about hope it always starts and ends with birds

Victoria Chang, The Trees Witness Everything , Love Letters

[heavensghost]

Averno, Louise Glück

[lemessiedumal]

the palestinian film institute and the palestine film platform are screening 'unprovoked narratives' — a program of 12 films celebrating the beauty of Gaza, its people, its struggle and its survival

the films will be available to watch for free through october 21st

[redlipstickresurrected]

Hugo Poon aka Hpicckcy (Hong Kong) - Retrospective: Where have all the flowers gone?, (Another vanished charming corner shop…High Street, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong), 2007, Photography