August 2011
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“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? …Well,...”
– John Steinbeck (via faxmachines)
“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.”
– Anaïs Nin (via lavandula)
“first they try to break you with grinding
poverty,
then they try to break you...”
– sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
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There is a sunrise in his sadness
A bitter light in his full moon eyes I swallow his secrets and Plant a garden for his happiness
Somalia is world's worst humanitarian disaster: UN →
“We ran because of starvation,” said Ulmay Abdow Issack, 32, who spent three weeks walking to the border with her six young children and sick husband. “We didn’t have anything to eat or drink on the journey.”
For Muslima Adan Hassan, 35, the journey was even more arduous. Two sons and a daughter died during their 35-day trek to Dadaab.
From the border, refugees...
