reading Anselm Kiefer through tears: “summer isn’t completely over, it will return, but there’s no way to know if you’ll still be here. so this seasonal ‘over’ always carries the potential of being an absolute ending.”

Go for a walk

"When I criticize a system, they think I criticize them—and that is of course because they accept the system and identify themselves with it." -Thomas Merton

Kierkegaard on noise and silence

From the US to the israeli occupation, their blood is on your hands.

Please seek intimacy today. The war-machine's agenda is to pull us out of intimacy, to see another as an other, to flatten a bloodfull human into a barely, a number, not valid, whatever. To move toward intimacy, toward closeness, is to reject this agenda. Love another, palpably.

“My words will either attract a strong mind or offend a weak one.” - Anne Sexton

This photo of poet Joseph Brodsky (right) at Anna Akhmatova's funeral in 1966 with the remainder of the group of disciple poets later known as Akhmatova's orphans

#RIPJamesMatthews - a baobab has fallen. The quintessential Dissident Poet, his works banned by the apartheid government. During the 80s and beyond, always a critical voice, for whom there were no holy cows! (photo Jimi Matthews)

“If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the sham, all the excuses, all the lies that you've been told.” -- Harry Crews

years is a treat. Most of the essays in the book have been previously published in different magazines and literary journals. I absolutely loved four of these, which I am going to name here. Do read them if you can find them online.

You're the scent of flowers, lakes and rivers. You're the earth I hold most dear. Let me lay my head on your adoring bosom and dream forever.

Jacob Epstein - Jacob and the Angel @tate Britain Photo: August 2013 "Oh gosh, I think they've caught us on camera..." .

Beauty is the wage of poetry.

Speaking of settler colonialism, there seems to be an impression that this cannot happen in countries like Sudan, ridiculously reflected by the question “Free Sudan from what?” Resistance committees in Sudan have repeatedly said the RSF militia is displacing hundreds of thousands

Jewish director Sarah Friedland accepted the #VeniceFilmFestival Lion Of The Future Award for Best Debut Film for ‘Familiar Touch’. During her speech she said that she stands in solidarity with the people of Palestine and says “I am accepting this award on the 336th day of

I keep forgetting to wear my helmet in the field. If I’m honest it’s because I hate it, it’s so heavy & when my peers remind me to wear it I snap back, “what? You think it’ll protect us? Didn’t Shireen (Abu Aqleh) get shot in the neck?”  In our profession as war journalists we

Read, take long walks, memorize poetry, listen to the wind, and cherish those who love you.

Cut down on sugar in all forms. Fruits, especially sweet ones, can be limited to 1 a day or <. Avoid fruit juices (natural &processed) -can raise glycemic index. If you have to consume fruit have it whole not juiced. Lime juice is fine with salt/ pepper rather than sugar. (1)