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Blake and the flowers
Under the cut you will find 30+ lyrics from the 1942 Disney movie Bambi to use for your roleplaying enjoyment.
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Astronomy: the 28 phases of the moon in a lunar month.
Engraving (1646) by P. Miotte.
Image and text information courtesy Wellcome Collection.
“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”
— Lao Tzu
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Young Mahmoud Darwish, (Palestinian poet and writer)
محمود درويش في شبابه، شاعر القضية الفلسطينية
His Life:
Mahmoud Darwish was born in "Al Birweh" Palestine (1941), During the establishment of the State of "Israel" in (1948), his village was destroyed and his family fled to Lebanon. As a young man, Darwish faced house arrest and imprisonment for his political activism and for publicly reading his poetry. - Darwish published his first work of poetry "Wingless Birds" in (1964), when he was 19.
His Poems:
I am from there, I am from here. I am not there, and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part. And I have two languages, I forget which
We love life if we find a way to it. And we plant, where we settle, some fast growing plants, and harvest the dead. We play the flute like the color of the faraway, sketch over the dirt corridor a neigh. We write our names one stone at a time, O lightning brighten the night. We love life if we find a way to it…
If the canary doesn't sing to you my friend know that you are the warden of your prison
- Translated by Fady Joudah
Muted tones
when richard siken said “I want to tell you this story without confessing anything [...] I want to tell you this story without having to be in it”
“For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.”
— James Baldwin, from “Nothing Personal,” in Collected Essays