My breathing body emerged from a reflection...

Only now coming to draw connections to words that I have known from before I knew myself. Much of what I share has a multitude of meanings. Pay attention, what you percieve to understand may only be a semblance of what I conveyed. Please do not reblog without acknowledging what these words mean to who and where they arrive from. I am not inextricable to the words and thoughts of my being, nor... Copyright © 2016 Sumbal Sabah. All rights reserved.

[naturecolourslove]

Imagine a language without numbers greater than 1.

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These seasonal transitions are becoming lessons.

What did we forget last season that we need to be reminded of before we move forward?

Sumbal Usman

[islamic-quotes]

Please spread this!!

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#Sheikh Jarrah

[kieljamespatrick]

[srsfunny]

More Beautiful After Being Broken

[fluffmugger]

What this trite imagery misses out on is the fact that kintsukuroi requires a lot of work to repair a piece like that.  It takes a lot of time, a lot of effort, a great deal of investment.  Sometimes parts of the original are damaged beyond repair, and you have to instead painstakingly create entirely new ones.   It’s still not the same.  Maybe it’s something more beautiful. But it’s not the fact that it broke that makes it beautiful. It’s the work put into it.  It’s the fact that people made the effort to salvage it, because it was worth salvaging, because it was important enough to salvage.      It’s the care that makes the beauty.   An apology can’t always fix what has been broken.  That doesn’t mean it’s not irreparable, sometimes you can go on to rebuild and repair.  But it won’t ever be the same as it was again.   

[contranym-xendo]

I really appreciate this addition because I’ve always hated the “more beautiful for having been broken” thing. Being broken sucks and I hate all those tragic romantic sensitivities that try to make it what it’s not. These pieces are beautiful because they’re repaired with effort put in to making them shine.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

That bowl is NOT more beautiful for having been broken. It’s more beautiful for having been very skillfully repaired.

[naturecolourslove]

Dream water

It’s as if we knew that water is listening...- Sumbal Sabah 

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I am a fish caught in the net of memories, struggling to escape from being consumed by the person who created all the memories. - Sumbal Sabah

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And somehow I lived...- Sumbal Sabah

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The Creator embroidered a heart between our connected paths.- Sumbal Sabah

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My paths are now embroidered with hearts. - Sumbal Sabah

[naturecolourslove]

Learning to fly as water

I have become water, suspended in uncertainty and under the dominance of air.

But, doesn’t the rain comfort you as it falls?

And don’t the waterfalls look stunning, shooting off those daunting cliffs?

It is in these slow striking moments I am realizing, the struggle and sacrifice of water, as it falls, over, and over.

- Sumbal Sabah 

[naturecolourslove]

The sacrifice of the rainfall. - Sumbal Sabah 

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Water falls to rise. - Sumbal Sabah

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Rain cycle, I crave you. - Sumbal Sabah

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Butterflies Listen to Flowers Blooming

My sleepy eyes contradict the flows of my listening veins, slowly dissolving your words into the moving ingredients of my body. - Sumbal Sabah 

[naturecolourslove]

I am listening for you. Wake-up with me. - Sumbal Sabah

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Living Poetry. Life Art.

I am blossoming into colours that I am proud to paint the world with. - Sumbal Sabah

[naturecolourslove]

Painting into you...I am becoming a colour too wild to be seen. - Sumbal Sabah

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Who I have Been Created To Be

I am no longer seeking to be who I need to be or who I want to be, but rather, I am on an intentional journey to Become the person I have been Created to Be. 

- Sumbal Sabah 

[naturecolourslove]

The Creator said to me “Be” and I was. 

- Sumbal Sabah

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Finding the Balance: Learning to fly through air

I am water suspended in air.

- Sumbal Sabah

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Carry me into your heart as I fall into your breath. - Sumbal Sabah 

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Visualizing Decolonization

One day signs from the W̱SÁNEĆ Nation, Songhees Nation and Esquimalt Nation - written in the local Indigenous languages - will welcome me back to UVic.

- Sumbal Sabah

[naturecolourslove]

There are many ways to light a room. - Sumbal Sabah 

[naturecolourslove]

Your heart is water breathing

Water creates land.

And land reciprocates by unifying water and land through the human body.

- Sumbal Sabah