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Life, and Nothing More… (1992), dir. Abbas Kiarostami

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Abbas Kiarostami’s “Taste of Cherry” ( …طعم گيلاس ) May 16, 1997.

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the essentials

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‼️Please don’t skip taking a look 🍉🇵🇸

I am Lina from Gaza, 25 years old. I have been married for 4 years. I have a son named Saif, who is 2 years old, and a daughter named Sidra, who was born in the October War, who is 3 months old. They were born by caesarean section. Help me and my children evacuate Gaza. I need your help to evacuate my family from Gaza. I hope you and your loved ones find you safe and sound. I am coming to you with a very urgent and time-sensitive appeal. We face a constant and imminent threat of death, injury and disease, even during the so-called “truce”. My home has been bombed and destroyed beyond repair. My family’s home. We have been under occupation all our lives, and none of us have experienced anything like what is happening now. There is now an opportunity to get the entire family out of Gaza to Egypt via the Rafah crossing. We do not know how long this opportunity will last, which makes it imperative that we raise the necessary funds as soon as possible. The longer it takes, the more vulnerable they will be. No one knows how long the bombing of Gaza will continue. It will continue, regardless of the cost in human lives. For my family’s future, your help is essential. I am deeply concerned about my children.

The money you contribute will: Cover the enormous costs of safe passage to Egypt. The vast majority of the money will be used for this purpose.

Provide temporary housing for the family in Egypt while the best way forward is determined for them.

Cover some of their initial living expenses while they are in Egypt. We hope to provide them with at least two months’ worth of money. They need time and space to breathe after being gassed during this genocide.

Once all of this is done, additional funds will be used to help me move past my current situation so that I can provide more support to my family. I have taken on the responsibility of caring for them during this critical and uncertain time and into the future.

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Dorothea Lasky, from "Ugly Feelings," in Thunderbird

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Edward Hopper. Study for Hotel Lobby 1943 conte on paper

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Italo Calvino, from Invisible Cities

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love elizabeth s.

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Perfect Days (2023)

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I won't mention the w(ar)

"Nbeed" by Palestinian composer and singer Rasha Nahas

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I was born to sit in a cafe doing fuck all

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perfect light in my apartment after a big storm

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Daniel Arthur

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Oldboy 올드보이 (2003) — dir. Park Chan Wook

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“‘I want you to learn to make friends of your books; someday you may need them, because —’ He hesitated, ‘because you mayn’t find life at all easy, we none of us do, and books are good friends.’”

— Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness