─╤╦︻. forever young. لا راحة في الدنيا
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Omdurman, Sudan
Sheikh S lives in a small house overlooking the tomb of his grandfather, the Mahdi. On sheets of paper joined with Scotch tape to make a scroll, he has written a poem of five hundred stanzas, in the style and metre of Grey’s Elegy, entitled ‘Lament for the Destruction of the Sudanese Republic’. He has been giving me lessons in Arabic. He says I have the 'light of faith’ on my forehead, and hopes to convert me to Islam.
I say I will convert to Islam if only he will conjure up a djinn.
'Djinns’, he says, 'are difficult. But we can try.’
After an afternoon of combing the Omdurman souk for the right kinds of myrrh, frankincense and perfume, we are now all prepared for the djinn. The Faithful have prayed. The sun has gone down, and we are sitting in the garden, under a papaya, in a mood of reverent expectation, in front of a charcoal brazier. The sheikh first tries a little myrrh. A wisp of smoke curls upward.
No djinn.
He tries the frankincense.
No djinn.
He tries everything we have bought, in turn.
Still no djinn!
He then says, 'Let’s try the Elizabeth Arden.’
The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin
Dancing bugs. The population of an old pear-tree. 1870. Book cover.
Internet Archive
They’re having a moment
This cheetah is so small
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Source: thedodo
Ancient farmhouse near Nant Gwrtheyrn. No downstairs windows !
1918 World War One ad for Royal Baking Powder for "Wheatless Days" which were done to save wheat to be used by the troops. From Everything Victorian and Edwardian, FB.
gallery walls appreciation post because lately i've been obsessed with them ✶
Vintage 80′s Telemania Rainbow Cloud Phone.
car full of apples, azerbaijan, by david fielke
I was in the fields 🌸
2023 Paris, old bathroom
Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830–1902), "A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie" (detail), 1866
Various keys, German, 15th Century
From the Met Museum
nakba survivors & their house keys
name and age not recorded. al-jalazoun. may 15, 2012. photographed by issam rimawi. | fatima odah, age 85. dheisheh. may 15, 2005. photographed by debbie hill. | laila abdel meguid tafesh, age 78. rafah. may 15, 2009. photographed by abed rahim khatib. | mohamed abdel meguid gomaa, age 66. rafah. may 8, 2010. photographed by abed rahim khatib. | ibtihaj dawlah, age 89. al-shati. may 16, 2023. photographed by mahmoud ajjour. | abu sabri, age 87. aida. february 12, 2015. photographed by kate shuttleworth.
No amount of sleep suffices the tiredness of one’s soul.
Don't lower your standards, raise your du'a.