Israeli soldiers and settlers are using sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank -- forced nudity, invasive & painful body cavity searches, Israelis exposing their genitals, threats of sexual violence.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... #Israel
โAt many Jewish institutions, rejecting #Zionism is indeed regarded as a form of sacrilege.
But more and more American Jews are having a hard time reconciling other core features of their identity with support for #Israel โs current government.โ
@newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Edvard Munch
Blossom of Pain (1898) #art
Heartening to hear, Philip. Sends my warm regards to JVP whom I hope to share my forthcoming book with, soon.
One must truly HOLD A SPACE for oneself.
All things conspire to close up this space.
Kay Ryan
โi will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darknessโ
โE.E. Cummings
"For in truth it is life that gives unto life while you,
who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness."
#Gibran
Be ahead of all parting, as if it had already happened,
like winter, which even now is passing.
For beneath the winter is a winter so endless
...
To all that has run its course, and to the vast unsayable
numbers of beings abounding in Nature,
add yourself gladly, and cancel the cost.
โ Rilke
At its best, the sensation of #writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.
You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain and then โ and only then โ it is handed to you.
โ Annie Dillard
Our metaphysical eyes are expert
at collapsing false distances โ
seeing through the apparent
to the Infinite...
Itโs a Cult
Zhuangzi โ 'Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.'
โIf a man had no more to do with God than to be thankful, that would suffice.โ Sermon XXVII / Quint Sermon XXXIV
Let Mystery have its place in you...
โAt many Jewish institutions, rejecting #Zionism is indeed regarded as a form of sacrilege.
But more and more American Jews are having a hard time reconciling other core features of their identity with support for #Israel โs current government.โ
@newyorker.com
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
'Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip'
โ Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
'Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip'
โ Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
'I think of anger as a nuclear power.
It can lead to destruction and it can make light.'
โ @azizabusarah.bsky.social
Hope is an action
โLababidi hopes with mystic awareness, and warns without hesitation.โ
โRawanee Review
rawanee.com/perspectives... #poetry
#palestine #gaza
Learning to Pray
youtu.be/cOqM-cb0uS0?... #poetry #spirituality #faith #booksky #writingcommunity
The Liar's Punishment
โRita and the Rifle" is the poem Mahmoud Darwish, national poet of Palestine, wrote about Tamar Ben-Ami, the Israeli woman with whom he he fell in love.
via
@celestemarcus.bsky.social
#poetry #Palestine #Israel
Blessed are the peacemakers
Peace is the work of purified hearts.
โ Pope Leo
Shock has been our daily bread for so long now waiting for the Protestant churches to protest.
Though some of the ecumenical Christian organisations like Iona Community have been clear and actively working in solidarity for decades and decades - in fact since before 1948
But this ๐๐ผ
There is a murฤซd, a seeker,
who goes to a Sufi sheikh and says he wants to join the path.
The sheikh asks, โHave you ever fallen in love?โ
โNo,โ says the seeker.
โGo fall in love, then return to me.
โGod desires to lighten [your burden] for you, for man was created weakโ
#Quran 4:28
Court Lightning โก
