“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”
Author: Anisah Hamid
– Virgil
LiteratureFacilis descensus Averno: noctes atque dies patet atvi ianua Ditis; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras – Hoc opus, hic labor est.
“Easy is the descent into hell, for the door to the underworld lies open both day and night. But to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of heaven – there is the task, there is the burden.”
The Aeneid
– Pablo Neruda
PoetryI do not love you as if you were the salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this; where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
Sonnet XVII, come love letter
– Kylie Johnson
PoetryWhen the layers subside
and the fortune is empty
the pigment of our days
will echo pure
and I will be nowhere
if not with you
Count Me the Stars
Palestine vs Israel
Current AffairsIt’s on the news almost everyday yet so little is being done about it. Although the situation in Palestine is not a new one, it has escalated dramatically to the extent that it is almost impossible to believe that Israel has any support. This is no longer a conflict, this is now a war crime, a humanitarian crisis. Any supporters of Israel’s acts of violence, sadistic cruelty and murder are as complicit in these war crimes as the soldiers themselves. Any conflict which involves the slaughtering of children is wrong and should be put to an end as soon as possible, but what makes this so much worse is that Palestinians are vulnerable; they have no army, no high tec weaponry and Israel is very aware of this, yet continue to slaughter civilians. Families are given no warning if their areas are to be bombed. Playgrounds have been bombed. Hospitals are being targeted. There is no justification for this level of violence.
“It’s not about religion, it’s about humanity.”
If the resolution is so simple, why is it so hard for both sides to reach it?
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