From Bhanu Kapil’s The Vertical Interrogation Of Strangers

― Hiromi Kawakami, The Briefcase

“To try to not be more interesting but be more interested” literally changed my life perspective btw

Nothing is difficult if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy if you seek it through your self. 

Ibn Ataallah (rahimullah)

Goatsong, Leila Chatti

they should invent a way to save your mother

Natalie Díaz, from “Skin-Light”, Postcolonial Love Poem

it is my birthday today. as a gift to me, tell someone you know about palestine, but don’t just tell them about our death. tell them about our life, the way we crowd around to flip the maqlooba, the insistence that someone else eats first, the tatreez we’ve woven into the fabric of our history, tell them about the soap from nablus, the oranges from yafa, the olive oil. tell them about our poetry, our art, our folksongs. tell them that we were, and still are, human beings who bore witness to the worst parts of humanity but searched for compassion anyway.

Joy Sullivan, from "Long Division", Instructions for Traveling West

I love my daughter already whoever she is

2025

ACTION IS THE ANTIDOTE TO DESPAIR

KEEP THE FAITH DO THE WORK

PASSION ABOVE ALL IS THE REMEDY AGAINST BOREDOM

EVERY DAY IS ALL THERE IS

WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE