Beauty in the apertures of pain

its ok to grieve what once was + what could have been

Bones and All (2022)

Dear Prudence- Across the Universe Soundtrack (cast)

Dear Prudence, open up your eyes

Dear Prudence see the sunny skies

the wind is low, the birds will sing

that you are part of everything

Dear Prudence, won’t you open up your eyes?

… Dear Prudence, won’t you come out to play?

Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day!

the sun is up, the sky is blue,

it’s beautiful, and so are you!

Dear Prudence, won’t you come out to play?

Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Catherine Cobham, from “Perfection is the same as imperfection”, A River Dies of Thirst

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

Jessica Shirley (American, based Vancouver, WA, USA) - The Child Sleeps, Drawings: Black India Ink, +Digital Color

Sunrise, Louise Glück

adark.lana

The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920–1923

by the way your voice always matters in the fight against injustice. every single time you speak out against an injustice it matters. it sheds light on it. it empowers others to speak up. it matters

if you are afraid to talk about palestine ask yourself why. will you be in danger? as palestinian people are? will an occupying army come into your house in the middle of the night and arrest you for mentioning the tragedy of palestine on social media? is it because you might be perceived as radical for asserting that an occupied people have a right to live free from oppression and death? is it because you feel you don’t know enough to speak out on the 60 days of relentless bombardment in 75 years of ethnic cleansing?

here are some resources to educate yourself:

- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappé

- The Question of Palestine, Edward Said

- Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics, Marc Lamont Hill & Mitchell Plitnick

- The Hundreds Years’ War on Palestine, Rashid Khalidi

- Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, Noura Erakat

- Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Angela Davis

- Journal of an Ordinary Grief, Mahmoud Darwish

- Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, ed. Sumaya Awad & Brian Bean

what’s happening is wrong. it is unjust. and we are not powerless. this goes triple for usamericans. it is our weapons, our military aid, and our country’s unconditional support to the apartheid state of israel that is making this genocide a reality.

use your voice. speak the truth. it always matters.

Illustrations form Lysistrata by Norman Lindsay (1930)

Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine / Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh / Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone / Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me / Kitty Stryker, “Radical Self-Reliance” Is Killing People.  / Yiyun Li, Dear Friend, From my Life I Write to You in Your Life

“So the film is completely circular. You start and end with the sunrise.” – Joe Wright

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)