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I heard my mother asking our neighbour for some salt. I asked her why she was asking them as we have salt at home. She replied: "It's because they are always asking us for things; they're poor. So, I thought I'd ask something small from them so as not burden them, but at the same time make them feel as if we need them too. That way it'll be easier for them to ask us for anything they need from us.”

Ali al-Jifri

intimatum

“I could not stop wasting time. It was crazy. I wanted to do something with my life, but instead I went to sleep, or sung in the shower, or sat and stared at the wall. I couldn’t even tell you about anything that I saw. I didn’t talk to anybody. The cicadas kept dying outside, and as I dreamed, my mouth grew thick and venomous with silence.”

Yiwei Chai, The Jacaranda Years

oshuns-ambience

gnossienne

In Favour of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays by Anaïs Nin

chimiraa-deactivated20220508

It's that time again

heirloomganja

Mexican painter Frida Kahlo smoking mota

danyeldiyap

An Egyptian Story (1982) by Youssef Chahine

ijaazat

eat your feelings, sleep them away, walk your feelings, walk on them, literally nothing matters it's okay you're allowed to go a little crazy once in a while... you're not bad for eating too much or not wanting to do something... you're alright... you're very nice even... love u

desultory-suggestions

No one is holding onto that embarrassing thing you did! You’re remembering it because it’s you! I promise people aren’t judging you.

poetsandwriters

Clare Sestanovich, author of Objects of Desire (Knopf, 2021), in Ten Questions.

artemisiasea

“You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.... No artist is pleased.... [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”