nostr:npub19yatk5qxshe6czluc0jr7tgh9r3tnpc7jvt8p83j8zrz8kk48v9qncpcz6 True… But, also true that we live in an age of overstating. Something i@might be guilty of, too 🤷🏻♂️
Remember when people had diaries…
#nature #photography : Kent Burgess
http://thewaysofthegarden.squarespace.com/about
#nature #photography #birds #flowers #bloomscrolling
"Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded."
— Suheir Hammad, spoken word poet
#palestine #poetry #activism #psychology #news #politics
‘The failure to write a proper #book...is not just a personal failure.
It is a failure to rise to the heights, failure to approach the stature of those who have demonstrated that life is the miracle it is, those enlightened, luminous beings who are the antidote to death culture, to a vision of humanity with its feet mired in the mud of Hades, to industrial slaves toiling in eternal servitude, to meaninglessness, heartlessness, absurdity.'
—Jeff Gross, World of Midgets
#books #motivation #art
Kitchen #poetry
Shucking corn
and shocked, in turn
by all the layers
of exquisite ears
guarding its secret
silken tresses
and blonde beauty.
#food #nature #writing #photography
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
#Today's #meditation :
Remembering how far we've come is a spur to how far we can go.
https://www.fomitepress.com/quarantine-notes.html
#motivation #hope #growth #healing
#Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
A stillness which characterizes #prayer, too, in the eye of the storm.
Art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
— Saul Bellow
#quotes #literature #meditation
nostr:npub1eznaq8qha8s4vahq8mf0ekt9cuxtxfe5886v8wt69tzhy6q9l4us3k3rul nostr:npub1kt3hutklgrma64ykjwk4trxq9rtyfnxhkjz729g4pd9xl7hzhrjse75004 Ah, what a small world 😇 My contact is Ibrahim Tahir & Wardah bookstore been kind to carry a number of my books:
https://wardahbooks.com/pages/search-results-page?q=yahia%20lababidi
I’ve just heard from Wardah #Books that they ordered copies of my new #book, Quarantine Notes (Fomite, 2023).
Wardah Books is a fine #bookstore, located in #Singapore, that specializes in Sufism, Islamic History & #Philosophy.
Kindly, consider suggesting Quarantine Notes to your local bookstore or let me know if there’s one I should approach?
Many thanks, for your support 🪷
nostr:npub1kt3hutklgrma64ykjwk4trxq9rtyfnxhkjz729g4pd9xl7hzhrjse75004 #bookstodon #SilentSunday #reading #writing #WritingCommunity #poetry #inspiration #motivation
nostr:npub15a44je2l5xp8yx3gc85yns3w4prxummwhedf75cuc6zxp0aqqflsmkm3m6 nostr:npub1pwxtgfu0lfjkvxsd9up6g0hr9zk4sh3rycf6s75474nkqf8phuaqqgxk5j sounds like you have the best of both worlds :)
nostr:npub1ssz9p3v5geq39ntzt7fpkm5lk3vhec03hjx28g23veff662ma58qp7gkd5 One must cultivate their spiritual immune system to withstand poison.
‘This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.
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Do you think I know what I'm doing?
That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself?
As much as a pen knows what it's writing,
or the ball can guess where it's going next.
― Rumi
#Translation : Coleman Barks
#poetry #spirituality #inspiration #faith
'To be a successful #artist it is necessary to be open, completely open.
But...being open for the audience also means opening yourself up to the poisons in the air'
— Jeff Gross, World of Midgets
#books #literature #quote
#Today's #meditation :
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It's the harpoon that makes the prey elusive.
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https://www.fomitepress.com/quarantine-notes.html
#JoinIn
'Men of a single thought have taken the lead.'
— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
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'Purity of heart is to will one thing.'
— Sören Kierkegaard
#quotes #motivation #spirituality
Poems clear the air
so anyone can see from here to there
...having made us so
porous I can suddenly be you
— Rachel Hadas
#poetry #WritingCommunity #inspiration #reading