{Rumi, From Let The Beauty We Love Be What We Do: "Who Speaks With My Mouth,"/ Franz Kafka, From Letters

{Rumi, from Let the beauty we Love be what we Do: "Who Speaks with my Mouth,"/ Franz Kafka, from Letters to Milena/ Tumblr User: @muktanjali (x)/ Franz Kafka/ Tiemar Tegene/ Unknown/ Khaled Hosseini/ Jacqueline Novak, from How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows/Sally Rooney, Conversations With Friends}

“everyone i love still lives there”

don’t break me ….

Sanna Wani, “Who is the Sun, Asking for Sleep?”, My Grief, the Sun // Brenna Twohy, A Coworker Asks Me If I Am Sad, Still

إسكندرية ليه | ALEXANDRIA... WHY? (1979) dir. Youssef Chahine The film, set during World War II tells multiple stories, one being the director’s own story through the character of Yehia, a young man in Egypt with directorial ambitions but the passion to be an actor, who frequently watches the same film repeatedly at his local cinema out of fear that he missed something the first time, performs Shakespeare, struggles with social and familial pressures, falls in love, and pursues his dream of studying acting at the Pasadena Playhouse. Subplots include a Jewish-Muslim couple struggling once a pregnancy comes to light, a homosexual romance between a gay English soldier and a wealthy Arab, and a wacky group of communists who plan to kidnap Winston Churchill in hopes of ending the war. (link in title)

The Night of Counting the Years (1969)

May you live an existence that doesn’t require constant resilience.

~ Pottery bowl containing paint, once belonging to a fresco painter.

Period: Roman

Date: A.D. 1st century

Place oforigin: Egypt