November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
3 posts
gravity
deliver with gravity. express a child’s good sense of fun, disinhibition and cheer.
too much of a good thing, isn’t all that great.
lurching tired stomachs.
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my world.
My world is different from yours. Ghurabaa. I was listening to a lecture by Khalid Latif of ICNYU - who’s one of the best speakers and Imaams I’ve heard in ages, about how we are so afraid, to express ourselves in our religion, for fear of being that, of being strange, or ghurabaa (strange in arabic) as the Prophet* once said. The important thing he was trying to relay was how not...
August 2011
1 post
Wha..
where am I ?
I’m usually pretty oriented as soon as I wake, but when I did yesterday I was so confused. And of all beds, the bed I missed was the one in Moshi, Tanzania.
I’m going back there. IsA.
March 2011
1 post
Star spangled sky
crushing…
agonising
sleeping.
haikus were forgotten
a long time ago.
Now we build castles of air.
February 2011
1 post
November 2010
6 posts
Wake up, wake up! Responsibility awaits.
I hate the movies - i hate this whole culture of ‘emo’, indie movies, coolness - such drownability. such stupidity.
Soppy and weak. Growing into something hardy - is the only way to feel genuinely, healthily good.
Rotting, and - what are those bloated bodies called? like the macerated still-births, what are they called, when they stew, and prune.
I’m not sure what it is.
...
TWLHOA, TWLOHA.
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hello again!
the moon is full today, and it’s looking absolutely gorgeous, and absolutely taunting. stupid incapable camera.
have i ever said that i love the stars? and everything else - ‘all floating in it’s own orbit’
and the temperature. heaven sent. i couldnt sleep the other night cause of the deafening, enveloping heat. but i reckon it’s about to really rain.
back to the...
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
5 posts
“it’s like a turd that won’t flush!”
– Dyer again
“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour...”
– John Betjeman - English poet, writer and broadcaster.
An unnecessary death
Reading an article on the shooting of James Jay Lee after he’d taken hostages. Looked up his website http://www.savetheplanetprotest.com/, and it was just harrowing.
“these are the demands and sayings of lee”
So many psychiatric patients have similar issues, it looked so classic, and yet it was unbelievable. To read that he had been arrested in 2008, and deemed mentally ill,...
July 2010
7 posts
“Subiri kwa mola yote utapata”
– it’s very reassuring. And so apt. I don’t know if you know what a kanga is, look it up, but this lady who used to take care of my mom on her short breaks from boarding school gave it to me. I’ve only met her thrice, but I feel like she knows me.
It was the eve before our departure...
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“But didja notice something, Charlie Brown?
The world didn’t come to an...”
– Linus, to Charlie, when he lost the national spelling bee and he was feeling a little low.
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June 2010
7 posts
Today I met a girl with ataxia telangiectasia and it was the first time I felt upset in a long time. It’s a rare, progressive condition that affects your balance and immune system. She is likely to die in a few years time - even though she is only 10. What I found so amazing was how she was so hopeful, so happy..she couldn’t do so many of the things we’d asked her to do, but the...
“home/ will always be here/ unseen, out of sight/ where i disappear/ and hide
I...”
– Umbrella Beach - Ocean Eyes - Owl City
The Height Difference - Missing The Times
it’s a little sad - but I’m putting these up cause I can remember the times they were so true, and I wish those times were these.
dearoldlove:
I used to imagine how adorable our height difference would be if we ever finally got together. But now I get to see you with your new girlfriend who’s the same height as me. Turns out I was right: it is a pretty adorable height difference.
Watch
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Happy Birthday.
I feel old!
I had a lovely time, and for prezzies i got a flight to kl to see hiba during the hols from my dad, a couple of scarves- one’s got a lovely bright kilmi print, an organizer, a positive thoughts mug, and a disco ball - i had to do a treasure hunt all over the condo i live in for the last five presents, and it was fun. but i couldn’t shake the feeling of being old. A couple...
Moving Down
dearoldlove:
You’re moving down the list of my Recent Text Messages, and it’s breaking my heart.
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World Cup
Year of the underdog, mein friends, year of the underdog. I are love-ing the matches.
May 2010
4 posts
“Or you’d just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline...”
– tcitr
you know, i never was sure anybody else saw those. and for a while, when i was young, i thought it was pee that made all those colours.
so strange. a small comment like that makes you feel so comfortable and so in tune with whatever the person’s saying.
i’m reading the book...
i reckon i can be as idealistic as i want to be...
kamal.
with an obese patient.
April 2010
18 posts
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Diagnosus
four thousand one hundred and 6xty 2. 4162.
my assignment deadline’s been pushed to wednesday. yey me.
hailey, that picture was horrible! i dunno, i’d prefer to not put things like that up, although i know you don’t agree with it. to me it just gives them more than they deserve.
in preoccupations
i really really want to go to kenya this june. like crave want.
other random...
Time piece on 10 of Tom Hanks's do's. :D →
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