Volchitsa

Darkling, I listen.

[mirefireflies]

“the ending is always the same”

war of the foxes - richard silken / waterloo - ABBA / euripides’ medea - the little theatre / anne carson / the three fates - luca cambiaso / the oresteia - aeschylus / road to hell II - hadestown / when i met you - mira lightner / andersen’s fairy tale anthology

[joeyclaire]

Cardinal Zoppi read the names of every child lost in Gaza. He spent seven hours reading their names, his heart aching with grief. Among those names were children of Sami's relatives who died, hungry, afraid, and deprived of their rights. Today, with the United States recognizing a famine in Gaza, the need is more acute than ever. The children who survived are fighting daily for food, medicine, and their simple right to live. You can contribute to Sami's family with any amount, no matter how small or small, it means a lot. Never forget that there are children who want to live. If your life is beautiful, you eat every day and live freely, remember that there are children and souls whose luck has never been good and they are dying now. Donate, share, do something, please.

[budoorque]

خواطر

[self-hating-zionist]

If Zionists did this to your brother or your son, will you remain quiet?

Bader Al Hilal was abducted by the Israelis and kept in a dungeon for a month where he was tortured to an extent that in the videos he can't string two sentences together.

Bader Al Hilal, a 30 year old Palestinian from Gaza, was held hostage for over a month and tortured by the IOF. Look at his eyes when he speaks and listen to how he can’t form a sentence together. Heartbroken. Video: @qudsfeed Via @wearthepeace

#gaza #gazaunderattacks

#palestine #palestine🇵🇸

#freepalestine #palestinewillbefree🇵🇸

#فلسطين #فلسطين🇵🇸 #غزة #غزة_تحت_القصف

[qiyaamatkidinsachainsaaf-deacti]

[qiyaamatkidinsachainsaaf-deacti]

[virginpv]

“God said, “I am truly with you.”

[rose1water]

He said to his companion, “Do not grieve. Indeed, God is with us.” Thereupon God bestowed upon him from of His serenity, and strengthened him with forces you could not see.

— Qur'ān, 9:40

[flowerytale]

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

[luthienne]

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

[Text ID: A place is not only a geographical area; it's also a state of mind. And trees are not just trees; they are the ribs of childhood.]

[weltenwellen]

Ellen Bass,  "The Thing Is"

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

[anditslove]

Andrea Gibson, Birthday

[soracities]

Ellen Bass, "The Thing Is"

[luxe-pauvre]

“Ah. Well. Do you know what abundance is?” I shook my head again and plucked another grape. “You have been taught to live like a prisoner. Don’t take, don’t touch, don’t trust. You were taught that the things of the world are flawed reflections, that they don’t demand the same attention as the world of the spirit. It’s shocking, isn’t it? And yet, the world is abundant—if you invest in it, it will give back to you tenfold.” “Invest what?” She spread some cheese on a cracker and nodded while she chewed. “Your attention, of course.”

Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

[standwithpalestine]

2003: Palestinian girls Zanya and Jasmine overlooking the construction of Israel’s Apartheid Wall that will isolate them from their town. Abu Dis, Palestine. (Photo: Alessandra Sanguinetti)

[sayruq]

[sayruq]

The Children Who Lost Limbs in Gaza

More than a thousand children who were injured in the war are now amputees. What do their futures hold?

Gazal was wounded on November 10th, when, as her family fled Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital, shrapnel pierced her left calf. To stop the bleeding, a doctor, who had no access to antiseptic or anesthesia, heated the blade of a kitchen knife and cauterized the wound. Within days, the gash ran with pus and began to smell. By mid-December, when Gazal’s family arrived at Nasser Medical Center—then Gaza’s largest functioning health-care facility—gangrene had set in, necessitating amputation at the hip. On December 17th, a projectile hit the children’s ward of Nasser. Gazal and her mother watched it enter their room, decapitating Gazal’s twelve-year-old roommate and causing the ceiling to collapse.

UNICEF estimates that a thousand children in Gaza have become amputees since the conflict began in October. “This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a London-based plastic-and-reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma, told me recently.

[salamtamam]

There is no end to our struggle, except FREEDOM