Serendipity

.. قفْ ؛ على ناصيةِ الحُـلمِ وقاتلْ

[flowerytale]

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Andonis Anemoyannis, 1902

[feral-ballad]

Margartia Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from Rien ne va plus

[Text ID: “You were always leaving. I always picture you with a suitcase in your hand. I can’t picture you sitting at a desk. I always see you in motion.”]

[geryone]

Are You There, Samantha Fain

[ginger-by-the-sea]

[angelbabymikaa]

do you wanna listen to rain tap on the window with me and forget all of our problems

[lobotomyscars]

do you ever laugh with your friends and think oh this is the point. this is the point of everything

[kafk-a]

Arundhati Roy, The End of Imagination

[thirdity]

“In the course of general acceleration and hyperactivity we are also losing the capacity for rage. Rage has a characteristic temporality incompatible with generalized acceleration and hyperactivity, which admit no breadth of time. The future shortens into a protracted present. It lacks all negativity, which would permit one to look at the Other. In contrast, rage puts the present as a whole into question. It presupposes an interrupting pause in the present… The general distraction afflicting contemporary society does not allow the emphasis and energy of rage to arise. Rage is the capacity to interrupt a given state and make a new state begin. Today it is yielding more and more to offense or annoyance, “having a beef”, which proves incapable of effecting decisive change.”

— Byung-chul Han, The Burnout Society

[geryone]

“Love with the Hands Wide Open” by Lisa Suhair Majaj from We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage

[liesandnights]

When Jane Austen said “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more” and when Hozier said “I’m so full of love, I can barely eat” and when Nizar Qabbani said “because my love for you is higher than words, I have decided to fall silent.”

[noorshirazie]

“It’s amazing to think that everything we do leads up to an intersection between our life and another, that every action is taking us to a particular point where we will meet someone new; someone that may just be a passing face, someone to change us, someone to offer hope, someone to hurt us. No matter who they are, they’re right around the corner.”

— Noor Shirazie

[noorshirazie]

“Who said the love within us needs to be channeled into one person. Point me in the direction of a road not yet followed. Show me the faces of people I am yet to meet. Life is about unpredictabilities, its curveballs, its turning points. It is a rollercoaster ride. It is free. It is yours.”

— Noor Shirazie

[luthienne]

Maggie Anderson, “Heart Labor”

[momo33me]

This is a very old Islamic tradition, still alive in parts of Turkey. When a white blanket of snow covers everything - people go to the tops of mountains peaks and scatter seeds and food for the birds through the snowing season so as not to let the birds die of starvation. This deed was started by the Muslim caliph Umar bin Abdul Aziz and is narrated in various books of history and quoted as “Go and spread seeds on the tops of mountains - may the birds not die of starvation in a Muslim country.”

[coupdefoudrre]

[bseder]

olive harvest in turmusaya, palestine (2021)

[cirkinkadininutopyasi]