hello my 10,000 followers, how have you been the past... 8 years?
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01/30 | Here is this week’s spread. For as few tasks as I had, it definitely felt much busier 😁🐝
manet // hozier
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After learning my flight was detained 4 hours,
I heard the announcement:
If anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic,
Please come to the gate immediately.
Well—one pauses these days. Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there.
An older woman in full traditional Palestinian dress,
Just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing loudly.
Help, said the flight service person. Talk to her. What is her
Problem? we told her the flight was going to be four hours late and she
Did this.
I put my arm around her and spoke to her haltingly.
Shu dow-a, shu- biduck habibti, stani stani schway, min fadlick,
Sho bit se-wee?
The minute she heard any words she knew—however poorly used—
She stopped crying.
She thought our flight had been canceled entirely.
She needed to be in El Paso for some major medical treatment the
Following day. I said no, no, we’re fine, you’ll get there, just late,
Who is picking you up? Let’s call him and tell him.
We called her son and I spoke with him in English.
I told him I would stay with his mother till we got on the plane and
Would ride next to her—Southwest.
She talked to him. Then we called her other sons just for the fun of it.
Then we called my dad and he and she spoke for a while in Arabic and
Found out of course they had ten shared friends.
Then I thought just for the heck of it why not call some Palestinian
Poets I know and let them chat with her. This all took up about 2 hours.
She was laughing a lot by then. Telling about her life. Answering
Questions.
She had pulled a sack of homemade mamool cookies—little powdered
Sugar crumbly mounds stuffed with dates and nuts—out of her bag—
And was offering them to all the women at the gate.
To my amazement, not a single woman declined one. It was like a
Sacrament. The traveler from Argentina, the traveler from California,
The lovely woman from Laredo—we were all covered with the same
Powdered sugar. And smiling. There are no better cookies.
And then the airline broke out the free beverages from huge coolers—
Non-alcoholic—and the two little girls for our flight, one African
American, one Mexican American—ran around serving us all apple juice
And lemonade and they were covered with powdered sugar too.
And I noticed my new best friend—by now we were holding hands—
Had a potted plant poking out of her bag, some medicinal thing,
With green furry leaves. Such an old country traveling tradition. Always
Carry a plant. Always stay rooted to somewhere.
And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and thought,
This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.
Not a single person in this gate—once the crying of confusion stopped
—has seemed apprehensive about any other person.
They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those other women too.
This can still happen anywhere.
Not everything is lost.
Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952), “Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal.” (via oliviacirce)
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when u accidentally pour too much alcohol into ur mixed drunk and u have to tough it up Bc momma didn’t raise a quitter
also wtf can i not respond to replys anymore?
what’s your dream youtube channel?
as many of you may or may not know, my activity on this blog has diminished to practically nonexistent over the past year or so. however i still very much want to be creating content and connecting with people online, i just dont think tumblr is really the platform for me to do so anymore.
for years now ive thought about starting a youtube channel and making that my main focus, as writing, filming, and editing videos has always been something i’ve been passionate about. there also seems to be a largely untapped market of female youtubers whose primary focus isn’t beauty/lifestyle videos. and while i love makeup tutorials and mourning routine videos as much as the next girl, i’m certain that i cant be the only person frustrated by the lack of girls making more intellectual content. i want to see girls talking about philosophy and science and sex and political issues and social justice and a million other things, and i’m sure tons of you feel the same
therefore i’m wondering, what kind of videos do you wish you saw female youtubers making more of? what sort of topics are important to you and you wish got more coverage? what’s something you don’t understand but would love to have a crash course in?
i would really love to know (:
don’t forget this when the media starts spreading hate and fear
interests: that little fast walk birds outside do when they wanna get away from you but they’re not like super committed