Yahia Lababidi

Egyptian author of 11 books: aphorisms, poetry, essays & conversations.

✨ New book, QUARANTINE NOTES :

https://www.fomitepress.com/quarantine-notes.html

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#fedi22 #wisdom #inspiration #books #writing #poetry #Egypt #Art #Islam #spirituality #faith #activism #meditation #politics #photography #Nature #quotes

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2024-08-13 06:25:27

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@npub17sh…6e06 Thank you, partner in humanity, for supporting a free Palestine 🇵🇸

2024-08-10 22:24:55

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@npub1e7t…p7kg Bless you, Paul, for your warm support. If you could write a short review on Amazon / Goodreads that would help 🙏🏼

2024-08-02 18:12:11

And, when you survey our sad world with disgust, remember, this is only one of countless possibilities we've chosen.
It doesn't have to be this way and, we can still choose to live otherwise, if we want it badly enough.
Peace to All 🙏🏼✨
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2024-08-01 14:03:18

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
— Henry David Thoreau
https://darajapress.com/publication/palestin-wail-poems
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2024-08-01 13:52:49

A metaphor for war?
https://darajapress.com/publication/palestin-wail-poems
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2024-08-01 02:49:08

Leonardo da Vinci
Ginevra de' Benci (detail)
1474-1478
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2024-08-01 00:18:13

you are not alone,
the poem said,
in the dark tunnel.
—Louise Glück

2024-07-30 18:28:21

10 years ago, on this day:
Flyers dropped over #Gaza by the #Israel, urging residents to evacuate their homes, today... Where to?
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2024-07-30 05:20:03

Starry Night Over the Rhone. Van Gogh. (detail)
Starry Night Over the Rhone, while not quite as well-known as the iconic Starry Night, ranks as one of Van Gogh’s major works.
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2024-07-29 16:42:08

“The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
— Wendell Berry
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2024-07-25 22:22:59

'I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.'
— W. H. Auden
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2024-07-23 19:27:59

In a recent interview with Fox #News, following his assassination attempt, #donaldtrump was asked:
‘With all that’s happening, how do you weather the storm?’
Trump replied:
‘I am The Storm!’
Aside from braggadocio, what does this mean/say about him?
#quote #usa #politics
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2024-07-20 17:25:04

10 years ago, on this day, I posted these words about #palestine / #israel:
https://darajapress.com/publication/palestin-wail-poems
#Gaza #genocide #warcrimes #ICJ #War #ceasefirenow #peace #inspiration #motivation
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2024-07-20 16:18:09

'Of all our feelings the only one which doesn't belong to us is hope.
Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself.'
— Cortázar
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‘To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive god.
This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.’
― Martin Heidegger
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2024-07-07 14:46:28

“At the July 27 gathering of Surrey Muse, Yahia will be the Featured Poet. More information about the event is here: july-27-2024”
https://surreymuse.wordpress.com/2024/07/06/yahia-lababidi-surrey-muse/
#poetry #writing #palestine #reading #WritingCommunity #Gaza

2024-07-01 14:03:35

Homemade pesto chef 👨🏻‍🍳
#food #photography
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2024-06-30 20:23:53

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@npub1kur…va9q Thanks, for watching 🐿️

2024-06-30 13:25:18

#Florida walk, seen through the eyes of my younger, Egyptian cousin visiting from Germany :
https://youtu.be/B2hZQ6Cj-RU?si=jROojnv963NE6hXQ
#nature #animals #streetphotography #walking #germany #city #culture #video #youtube

2024-06-23 15:19:10

Please help spread the word on the Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Gazan #Women pursuing PhDs.
Applications are due July 15.
To learn more, click here:
https://t.co/8pMY9EV4k3
#Gaza #palestine #education #boost
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2024-06-21 17:45:17

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus
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2024-06-21 17:43:18

Happy 1st day of #summer from #Florida 🌞🌴
#nature #naturephotography #photography #travel #photo
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2024-06-21 03:16:29

“Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart."
— Abraham Heschel
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2024-06-20 02:23:43

Praise hallows ✨

2024-06-20 00:46:32

Fin Garden is the oldest surviving garden in Iran, which exemplifies the chaharbagh element (quadrilateral garden with a layout of four gardens traditionally separated by waterways, together representing the four gardens and four rivers of Paradise).
This garden was completed in 1590 under the Safavid dynasty
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2024-06-20 00:12:27

“Whoever does not accept at some time the dreadfulness of life with a firm resolve, even to the point of rejoicing in it, will never possess the unsayable power of our being and will pass to the margins.”
— Rilke

2024-06-19 23:35:21

But life is still enchanted for us…
A playing of pure
powers that no one touches who does not kneel and marvel.
— Rilke
#books #bookstodon #poetry #germany #life #writing #spirit
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2024-06-19 17:30:11

Broken-heartedness is the state of the warrior.
—Chögyam Trungpa

2024-06-19 17:26:51

How do you survive yet another broken-heart after you've finally dared to Hope, again?
A question for lovers and revolutionaries.
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2024-06-19 16:33:11

Do not despair…
#poetry #writing
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2024-06-19 06:42:17

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@npub1kus…9czk Grateful it resonates 🙏🏼

2024-06-19 06:40:52

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@npub1e4z…zx6l Rilke is tremendous 🙏🏼

2024-06-19 01:41:52

Who, if I screamed, would hear me among the ranks
of angels?
— Rilke
https://www.monkfishpublishing.com/products-page-2/poetry/sonnets-to-orpheus/
#books #bookstodon #poetry #spirit
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2024-06-19 01:20:34

This…
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2024-06-18 18:00:21

The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute.
The good news is there’s no ground.
— Chögyam Trungpa
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2024-06-18 13:13:42

Say it:
Zionism is not the friend of Judaism.
Israel is harming Jews.
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2024-06-17 20:21:42

Islamic scholar, Hamza Yusuf,
in a wide-ranging, profound conversation with Closer To Truth (PBS):
https://youtu.be/2-E2i6Rb6Mo?si=9BYrCPAOwr_l2vE5
#religion #faith #philosophy #Islam #pbs #video #interview #inspiration #motivation

2024-06-17 18:16:24

If our hearts should harden
and turn to ice,
at least, we must try
not to blame the weather.
https://youtu.be/_DbMYcfqCRc?si=AYVi-L5r_rTdBPz5
#poetry #news #love #politics #War #peace #ceasefirenow
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2024-06-16 17:25:08

Gethsemane carries deep spiritual significance as the place where Jesus embraced the Father's will despite his anguish, setting the stage for his crucifixion and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
#spirit #poetry
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2024-06-16 15:12:09

#Eid al-Adha Sunrise Prayer in the rubble of the Omari Mosque. #Gaza’s oldest mosque, was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike (3.12.23).
It was once a temple to Philistine and Roman gods, a Byzantine and Catholic church, and had engravings of Jewish ritual objects.
It was a beloved monument and center of community life.
Photo: AP
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2024-06-16 15:05:35

Photographer Waseem to this photo of a little Palestinian child outside the Gaza Soup Kitchen North, next to the Blue-colored school-turned-shelter.
May she live long, stays healthy, and enjoys the company of her parents and loved ones.
Photo by وسيم خليف
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2024-06-15 14:49:31

Everything in this drawing happened for real, and has been recorded and shared with the world for decades...
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2024-06-15 14:46:27

Palestinians walk out of the rubble, covered in dust after the Israeli attack on Abu Aisha family house in Deir al Balah, #Gaza on June 14, 2024.
📷 Photographed by Ali Jadallah -
IG @alijadallah66
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2024-06-14 17:40:18

‘Read with the heart until at some future time the true religion will come."
✨
If we abandon selfishness the door will be opened for us, and that which is mysterious will be revealed.’
— Paracelsus
#quotes #inspiration
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2024-06-14 03:03:19

i am looking for peace. i am looking for mercy. i am looking for
evidence of compassion. any evidence of life. i am looking for
life.
—Suheir Hammad
▪︎ Palestinian poet ▪︎
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2024-06-13 21:54:51

'Love and heartbreak, anger and forgiveness, and other deep feelings are often at odds with rationality.
Life is "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma," way too complicated for AI and never simply true.'
https://t.co/4owbIoO92q
#love #meditation #ai #tech #culture #psychology #reading
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2024-06-13 19:57:56

“Everywhere life is full of heroism…”
https://m.soundcloud.com/yahia-lababidi/desiderata-by-max-ehrmann-read?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2K8LlWqXrsQ6EqHpad_NttJDoYU7iKykNjzB5Z5BCE20-D4eVem80tNGI_aem_AZGwBu2lUbiIXo97ndl4EIh0qpeNhoo5SSBz-OT6GRYWjkjBjiX3bl71JiprtPpvkPOuKoWjIimhf_RjNe4ZbEiF

2024-06-13 15:33:13

‘Thus it is #love and fecundity or it is nothing at all.
At the end of this tunnel of darkness, however, there is inevitably a #light, which we already divine and for which we only have to fight to ensure its coming.
All of us, among the ruins, are preparing a renaissance beyond the limits of nihilism.
But few of us know it.’
— Albert Camus, The Rebel
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2024-06-13 05:09:28

like a lovesick fool in trance
he traced the bow-shape
of her bare lips and marveled
at the indeterminate color of her eyes
https://youtube.com/shorts/dOET1oskHnM?si=aZdFz6Zt3Mm223JK
#love #poetry
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2024-06-13 05:04:03

‘And I must be insane
To go skating on your name
And by tracing it twice
I fell through the ice’
— Tom Waits
https://youtu.be/aEj-mrwwaxo?si=NjHAd3ZvRdpaIyVe
#love #music #poetry
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2024-06-12 15:25:26

‘Life is infinitely great and profound as the immensity of the stars above us. One can only look at it through the narrow keyhole of one’s personal experience.
But through it one perceives more than one can see.
So above all one must keep the keyhole clean.’
— Franz Kafka, Conversations with Gustav Janouch
#quotes #books #life
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2024-06-12 14:19:34

“I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.
*
Envy those who see beauty in everything in the world.”
— Happy Birthday, Egon Schiele
https://youtu.be/CvlKxLOICUg?si=a4Py-NnQqvWyh2ZM
#art #quotes #books
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2024-06-12 03:18:13

America is a psychopath, a gaslighting, abusive partner that insists on being loved no, worshipped as saint and savior…
https://dawnmena.org/new-poetry-on-gaza-why-care-about-gaza-and-stranger-in-a-strange-land/
#usa #Gaza #palestine #news #poetry #writing #WritingCommunity

2024-06-11 14:26:25

Only a very few of the righteous will get into heaven. The rest will become inspectors of hell.
✨
Enough prophesying, it’s time to listen to people returning from the future!
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For a miracle to happen, it needs a helping hand.
— Mikhail Kuzmin
#quotes #russia #literature #writing #WritingCommunity #spirit #inspiration
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2024-06-11 03:44:39

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@npub1p4n…sm9j I knew he was amoral, but this is next level…

2024-06-10 23:23:13

Appalled to learn of the moral depravity of Michel Foucault:
“He would make love there on the gravestones with young boys [8-10 years old] The question of consent wasn’t even raised.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/4/16/reckoning-with-foucaults-sexual-abuse-of-boys-in-tunisia
#philosophy #sex #lgbtq #news #tunisia

2024-06-10 17:10:43

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
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2024-06-09 23:50:29

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@npub12tg…3pk6 Poem was, actually, inspired by a conversation with a 27 year old Gazan poet — still there in Rafah, still fearing for his life and theirs…

2024-06-09 20:25:32

A lesson to bullies, big & small:
Controlling others is a spiritual impossibility.
Those who try, must exist in a state of agitated insecurity.

2024-06-09 14:20:32

‘Force does not work the way its advocates think in fact it does.
It does not, for example, reveal to the victim the strength of the adversary.
On the contrary, it reveals the weakness, even the panic of the adversary.’
— James Baldwin
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2024-06-09 05:18:27

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@npub1a7r…xwjt Through their own monstrous cruelty, they are being revealed to the world. The victim role doesn’t work anymore, not the ‘most moral army in the world’

2024-06-08 22:36:38

About the 4 #hostages in #israel …
#palestine #Gaza #news
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2024-06-08 21:36:30

Architectural beauty of a palace in Karbala, Iraq
#art #architecture
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2024-06-08 18:52:54

This is what Palestinian women do: Take the discarded, broken, military death machines, and turn them into useful domestic appliances.
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2024-06-08 18:24:01

logodaedalus: One skilled with words
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2024-06-08 14:46:12

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
— Pascal
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2024-06-07 22:30:11

Cruel Sexual Torture By Israeli Army ❗️
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-detention-base.html
#israel #Gaza #warcrimes
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2024-06-07 20:12:16

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UN humanitarian coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, said that if one item is rejected during an inspection, the entire truck is sent back:
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/long-list-of-banned-items-from-maternity-kits-to-wheelchairs-israel-blocks-gaza-aid/
#palestine #israel #warcrimes #gaza #Rafah #news #UN

2024-06-07 19:57:22

Items Forbidden From Entering #Gaza
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/01/middleeast/gaza-aid-israel-restrictions-investigation-intl-cmd/index.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2O0Rw93ZD2aGT6svzUrTsl2C5F-VAO6QcJ7rVpdr5o4_pNsak0qj8A1C0_aem_AS1Tbnrc17KDNDWTms9ArdkZ0ZNQdSmHWqOBPdrbUyUn6sZ-YjUr4M1bVPGkPdAKJ98izsE9EIm_3wea4sCRQ9zJ
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2024-06-07 16:33:32

Poets are prophets

2024-06-07 15:38:03

Close-up of a 10 minute sketch —
by talented friend, Sanjay Monie 🙏🏽
#art #artist #drawing #illustration
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2024-06-07 01:07:46

The Palestinian photographer Saif Kwasmi, who was attacked on Wednesday by Jewish youths participating in the flag march in Jerusalem, was detained by police for a few hours later.
As far as is known, the police did not arrest any of Kwasmi's attackers.
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2024-06-06 15:04:30

A poem of mine in June/July issue of #Philosophy Now magazine :
“the most widely read philosophy publication in the English-speaking world”
#poetry #writing #WritingCommunity #ethics #morality
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2024-06-05 18:37:03

Palestinian poet morning the death of 14,000 Palestinian children 🕊️
https://youtube.com/shorts/M39K8XGp6aw?si=-juUYxim08KGt6Y6
(Full text of #poetry in description)
#palestine #Gaza #genocide #israel

2024-06-05 15:12:57

"Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it so that the other half may reach you."
— Khalil Gibran
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2024-06-02 20:05:21

Because one has to eat…
https://youtube.com/shorts/zLcmLptc_rE?si=VMxyYfZLw746B2MS
#food #youtube
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2024-06-01 17:19:02

🤍 Hearts 💔
We must not play with hearts
for who can calculate
what they are capable of,
or what they might become
How they slip, change shape
practice forgetfulness and purge, surrendering pleasure with pain
as unsteady burdens of memory
Or how they grow wayward, wild
the wounded become wounding
and, in order to keep alive,
treacherous in the trenches…
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZIxC0RBLFZY?si=--3YDxTnWKOM5XHj
#love #poetry #writing #WritingCommunity

2024-06-01 15:02:14

Family of Abdul Rabbu identified their murdered Palestinian son, who had become a skeleton, through his teeth …
…
#palestine #israel #Gaza #warcrimes #War #Rafah
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2024-05-31 11:51:53

Fun fact:
When lionesses are in heat, they have a lot of sex in a single day (20 to 40 times) and it is the lioness who demands to mate.
So, if a male is tired and can't take it anymore, she bites his testicles, demanding him to continue mating
This is because lionesses have a short fertile window, 2-5 days, with their persistent behavior ensuring they mate with multiple males during this period.
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2024-05-30 22:14:12

Colonialism in a picture
India, 1900, barefoot woman carrying an Englishman.
When you imperial capitals, remember on whose shoulders they were built.
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2024-05-30 15:48:45

Jabalia Camp today after the invading Israeli army withdrew from some areas
#photography via Mosab Abu Toha
#Gaza #Rafah #palestine #israel #War #warcrimes #news #genocide #usa
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2024-05-29 17:45:53

The Egyptian
by Picasso
(1953)
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2024-05-29 17:37:39

To be, Here and Elsewhere,
that’s the challenge…
Angel by Wojciech Paliwoda
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2024-05-29 00:24:27

Genocidal Nikki Haley just visited #Israel and she was pictured writing, "Finish Them" on bombs that are being dropped on #Gaza's civilians including 1 million children who live there.
#usa #palestine
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2024-05-28 18:00:42

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@npub17e6…jtul Most avocados are grown in Mexico 🤷🏻‍♂️

2024-05-28 14:29:59

Keep boycotting #israel
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2024-05-28 12:41:31

Beloved homeland,
how did we let you steer us
so far from home?
— Peter Meister
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2024-05-28 12:33:57

Eye sigh
Sighs do not only leave our mouths,
they exit our eyes, as well -
like crumpled clouds losing courage,
sailing emptily to the ground.
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2024-05-28 12:09:36

A poet writing with a knife 🔪
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2024-05-27 22:38:49

Poem by E.D. Watson, Via Dolorosa & Advent Wreath
Photo by Palestinian Mohammed Salem, for Reuters
#gaza #rafah #palestine #poetry #news #israel #war #warcrimes #books #bookstodon #writing #WritingCommunity
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2024-05-27 15:53:41

Palestinians search for food among burnt debris in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on an area designated for displaced people, in #Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, May 27, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
© Thomson Reuters
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2024-05-27 12:50:01

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@npub1e7t…p7kg Thank you 🙏🏼

2024-05-24 17:36:50

Hope
Every day, regardless
of the night’s previous
sulks or arguments,
morning climbs into bed
breathless as a child
eager to play.
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2024-05-24 16:21:55

"All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."
—Borges
*
'You are not required to complete the Work,
but neither are you free to desist from it.'
—Rabbi Tarfon
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2024-05-24 11:44:02

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@npub1ezn…5el5 You’re so right, brother. It does feel like a kind of soul violence & I believe I must walk away. If you can direct me to a more suitable publisher, I’d be grateful. Peace ✌🏼

2024-05-23 15:38:29

It is guilt that dictates literalist interpretations of Faith.
Those who believe we should go to hell, have raised it on earth.
https://youtu.be/_DbMYcfqCRc?si=b3DCpvew02372CZL
#meditation #faith #literature
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2024-05-23 15:29:20

The danger of cynicism is getting what you believe in: Nothing.
✨
Wisdom is recovered innocence.
✨
Where there are demons there is something precious worth fighting for.
✨
[Read more, here:
https://www.metapsychosis.com/collections/quarantine-notes/]
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2024-05-23 00:09:02

Thank you, #spain 🇪🇸
Thank you, #Ireland 🇮🇪
Thank you, #Norway 🇳🇴
https://youtu.be/_DbMYcfqCRc?si=0Yt9zYHmUBTCx0JU
#news #palestine
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2024-05-18 15:27:36

Perks of being a writer
#writing #WritingCommunity #humor #funny #life
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2024-05-17 20:43:30

“We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.”
— Roland Barthes
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2024-05-16 13:39:21

‘I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg.
There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.’
— Hemingway
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