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missing you

I wish I could run

Into the grip of your arms

Once over again

But that night was my last chance

Of ever seeing you

And those wonderful eyes

Ever again

But there’s a star in the sky

On this hopeless night

And I’d like to think it’s you

Watching over me

While my eyes fill with tears

I guess I can still feel your love

In places it wouldn’t normally be

- Grey Augustus

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“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”

— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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Trump represents white supremacy.

Repeating the crimes is the mission of white supremacy.

America has to address the obvious double standards for white male racists.

No woman, no person of color, only a white man can get the privileges Trump enjoys.

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February, be good to me. grow me spiritually and increase my capacity for love. for every sacrifice, show me the results of commitment and the harvest of a good heart. increase my faith, bless my finances. build me a castle of joy. make me a new aura for peace.

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February will be filled with happiness.

February will be filled with blessings.

February will be filled with positivity.

February will be filled with progress.

February will be filled with kindness.

February will be filled with opportunity.

February will be filled with love.

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January 2024 last week

“In my memory, it doesn’t end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever.”

— John Green; Paper Towns

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Hey! Ik you made the post a while ago but I’m curious about ur thoughts on jagame thandiram if you’re interested in sharing them, I’m unsure why you thought it was so bad

I hated the movie's politics. An exercise in speaking over marginalised voices, feeling sorry for doing it, and then doing it all over again.

It was so tone-deaf how the heroine's traumatic recounting of the Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka somehow manages to complete transference onto the hero (who "relives" it when a flight passes above him), inducing in him a total ideological reversal - the faux Randian individualist turns into some sort of revolutionary.

That's literally reducing genocide to a plot device for the hero's saviour complex narrative. Ok yeah, it is a mass masala movie at that but I think they should have just stuck with the gang war plot in the first half instead of trying to politicize it, and ultimately making some liberal "woke" drivel.

JT is just poor writing overcompensated with camera work, lighting and amazing music. Some spectacular lighting (and staging, especially in the set pieces), I should add. Hollywood filmmakers could learn a thing or two.

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I’m not good with the words, but there’s no way I can ignore what’s happening in our world right now. To think I have to witness innocent lives being taken, while I still get to live mine. I still have the opportunity to look forward to another day. I still get to see my loved ones and share all the love that is mine to offer. I’m still able to laugh at my favorite tv show. I’m still able to hop into my warm and cozy bed when the world is too cold. I’m still able to enjoy all my favorite foods. I’m still able to feel the butterflies when I find myself staring at certain someone. I’m still able to embarrass myself, but I can laugh about it down the road. The souls that were taken too early were not able to experience the gifts of life it has to offer. There is so much they could’ve seen and lived, but were met with hatred and loss. Free Palestine.

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"From the Sky", Sara Abou Rashed

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Tell me something about the meaning of water for you in Gaza.

We start with the undrinkable water that Gazans must drink every day, unpotable water. And the pools of water in the street after a rainy day, because there isn’t a functioning drainage system, especially in the refugee camps. Water just invades the houses of people in the camps.

When I think of water, I remember the sea. The sea is one of the most beautiful things to look at. But, at the same time, it’s linked to bloody memories. I have two in mind: in 2006, Israeli warships fired missiles at families on the beach at Beit Lahia, right where I live, and a whole family was killed. And the girl, the only survivor, was Huda Ghalia, she was I think 12 or 13. Instead of sitting with the family, eating watermelon, drinking tea, dancing, maybe mounting a horse, running around on the beach, the family turned out to be going—not on a trip or a journey—but to their death. And I remember this girl, blaming herself because she was the one who insisted that she and her family go to the sea that day. So she blamed herself: ‘I was the cause. I drove them to their death.’ Another incident was in 2014, when four children from the Bakr family were killed playing soccer on the beach. I think the ball was the only survivor of that game.

I can also think about the water tanks on our rooftops that empty when the electricity is cut off. Then you don’t have water for a few days and you wash your hands or your face by pouring water from a bottle, and the dishes by filling a corner of one container and rinsing in another. Primitive.

And then there is the sound of rain clattering against the tin sheets and siding in the refugee camps. It can be a good experience, the noise letting you know that it’s raining, but for the people living in those houses, that noise just doesn’t stop, no one can sleep, and if there are any little holes in the roof, then everyone has to move away from the dripping rain and bring out the buckets.

Excerpt From Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, Mosab Abu Toha

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Israel-Hamas conflict: US “must be held accountable,” Iran says

During remarks in Tehran on Monday, Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani blamed the U.S. for the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Iranian-backed, Gaza-situated Hamas militants. “The American government must be held accountable for the crimes of the Zionist regime, and it is the American government that is now supporting the Zionist regime against the oppressed nation of…

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This will be my pin post for now so I can throw all my thoughts in one place

My country, my family and my people are under attack and have been under attack for 75 years. A colonial, zionist occupation has been committing genocide on innocent civilians since 1948. They've forced them to leave, destroyed their homes, took their land and have done all that they could to take their culture and humanity with it.

There's killing, yes, but this occupation spreads to every facet of Palestinian life.

It's so unbelievably humiliating to have to go through several checkpoint on my way to a city that should just be a less than an hour drive. It's so disheartening to have family in Gaza, relatives I have never even gotten the chance to meet, people who have died before I could see them face to face, despite them being so close to me. It's so dehumanizing to not even be considered a citizen, to have to constantly justify myself and explain my identity as Palestinian to every person who asks, whether it be a soldier or an employee or just someone I meet.

If there's one thing I want people to keep in mind, is to not let this pass. The Israel-Hamas war is only a culmination of decades of discrimination and murder, people who've gone years without any food or water, with no way to provide for themselves and no escape. The IDF has killed journalists, medical professionals, women and children and have continued to justify it under the disingenuous excuse of giving "land without people to people without land."

This isn't a religious conflict, this isn't a conflict at all. It's the systematic abuse of an entire group of people, funded by the most powerful countries in the world, all to serve a zionist agenda built on hatred and discrimination.

I don't know, it's been an upsetting few days, so this one had to be insanely vulnerable and personal. Thanks for reading and please spread the word however you can, if you're able.

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This could be my last report from Gaza by Tareq S. Hajjaj. Please read.

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https://wehaddreams.com/