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One year ago today, you were with us.

Silently suffering as everyone asked about your career plans and marriage. We knew there wasn’t a future in store but we faked it with smiles on our faces and held back tears. I didn’t realize how little time we had.

I miss you so so much.

#fuckcancer

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JULY The forest is in full bloom "July bursts with color, and not just in the expected places. Flip a log and you might find a blue-spotted salamander, mottled like fine porcelain. On the forest floor, the violet coral fungus is shocking not only because of its color but because it looks like coral. Birds are thick into the business of raising their young. Other creatures are trying hard to blend in, to not turn into food for hungry baby birds. Can you find the Virginia creeper sphinx moth, banded in gray green, against the leaves of Virginia creeper? The black willow leans out over the edges of streams and ponds, springs up in swamps. Its wood is soft but bendable, a favorite of beavers and basket weavers. At the tips of its brittle branches, catkins send seeds into summer winds. The twigs are made to snap and float downstream, where they may drop roots in a muddy bank and become trees." -Kateri Kosek from The Forest Revealed This painting/page from "The Forest Revealed" celebrates some of my favorite things the month of July has to offer. Here's some close-ups, and the sketches that got me to the final art. The book will be out in September, but is available to preorder now.

Tanner just died. Loosing Tanner felt like loosing Aram all over again. Besides the heartbreak of seeing it twice, Tanners story was so far different. He got to live 5 years, Aram less than 2. He embraced life, made the most of it. Aram didn’t. We had so much plans for after her remission. We lost so much time planning for a non-existent future.

He went through the same suffering but he got to die at home with his loved ones and Aram had to die in the most painful of ways in the hospital, her lost conscious memory being ICU nurses poking and prodding as she suffocated

Not Ghost by JB putting me in a chokehold

#fuckcancer

2019 all over again.

وقعت حالي في مشاكل

و ما بعرف شو اعمل

Eid isn’t Eid without you

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لفتا، بوابة القدس الغربية | Lifta, the western gate of Jerusalem

لفتا قرية فلسطينية محتلة عام 1948 تقع غرب وشمال غرب القدس ،على ارتفاع 700م عن سطح البحر. ويمر الطريق العام الممتد بين القدس ويافا جنوبي غربي القرية مباشرة, كما تربطها طرق ترابية بمجموعة من القرى المجاورة.

تعتبر لفتا من القرى الاولى التي اخلت العصابات الصهيونية المسلحة سكانها منها عام 1948، واسكن فيها اليهود الشرقين من بداية الخمسينات وحتى الاعوام الاولى من الستينات.

الصور: ما تبقى من لفتا. تصوير: عيسى غريّب

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Lifta was a Palestinian Arab village on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The population was driven out during the Palestinian 1948 Nakba. The village, which is mainly intact, is located on a hillside between the western entrance to Jerusalem and the Romema neighbourhood. Lifta is the last remaining Palestinian village that was depopulated to have not been either completely destroyed or re-inhabited.

Photos: Lifta, all that remains. Photography by Essa Grayeb