So There's This New Harbinger...

God is something passed on by word of mouth, like fire from wick to wood. If I wasn’t given Him, would I find Him in a lightning strike? A stray spark, struck by steel? Would I overhear the word for Him in a conversation between the wind and the woods? Or the sparrow and the sun? A word is shared and a spark grows - what lies at the root of it? Silence, heavy loam, the thing shared by everything before we share it.

Help Us Find Safety: A Father’s Plea 🙏

Hi 👋, I'm Mohammed, and I’m reaching out for help to save my family from the horrors of war. We live in Al-Nuseirat, Gaza, where my wife and I are raising our three young children: Mira (6 years), Bakr (3 years), and Maria (a year). Our lives have been shattered by the relentless conflict, leaving us with nothing but fear, uncertainty, and a severely damaged home.

We’ve made the heartbreaking decision to leave Gaza in search of a safer future for our children. But we cannot do this alone. We need your help to make this life-saving journey possible.

Please consider supporting us. Your generosity can give my children the chance to grow up in a world free from fear. 🍉🇵🇸

Thank you for your kindness and for standing with us in our time of need. ❤️🌹

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To the Curiosity Rover

We named you after that which is best and brightest within us, that turns stars to constellations, planets into neighbors, and noise into song, but they tell me you can't sing this year. Creating vibrations using your sample-analysis unit costs power, and your nuclear battery can't run forever. For entropy, for the finitude of the universe, and the death of all things, I am sorry. But I wanted to tell you the party's still on, the next planet over, and for making that distance seem just a little shorter, we have you to thank. We haven't forgotten you. We still write poems and make memes in your name. If the aliens find you, and they wonder how or why we sent you on this journey, they need only read your name.

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I wrote this four years ago, after reading somewhere that the Curiosity Rover once sang Happy Birthday to itself to celebrate the anniversary of its Mars landing, but to conserve battery, it never did it again.

I felt such immense grief for a robot I've never met and for once my tears transmuted perfectly into nice words. I'm still happy with this, even if I'm not really a poet.

Happy Birthday, Curiosity.

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you're my sweet russian roulette ˏˋ°•*⁀➷♡•°`.

i wish there were file formats for dreams and memories

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