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""The American Embassy" is both a beacon and a barrier to those fleeing persecution. What evidence does a grieving mother have to prove her home has placed a target on her back? How can cold bureaucracy empathize and sacrifice to save a life? What are these laws and borders but excuses to shrug?" — Feb 10, 2026 07:47PM
""The American Embassy" is both a beacon and a barrier to those fleeing persecution. What evidence does a grieving mother have to prove her home has placed a target on her back? How can cold bureaucracy empathize and sacrifice to save a life? What are these laws and borders but excuses to shrug?" — Feb 10, 2026 07:47PM
I was tempted to pray, to beg that no door be opened as we journeyed from door to lift, but I am fairly certain that those are exactly the types of prayers He doesn’t answer.
I love this line. I feel like so many "prayers" are focused on individual desire/need rather than the good of the world or society.
“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset.”
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“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”
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“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
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“I am not delicate.
I am skinny dipping at 2am;
I am dancing naked under the full moon and playing in the mud.
I am the reverberating echoes of a curse word ricocheting off the steeply sloping mountain you thought I couldn’t climb;
I am bare skin in the deepest depths of winter; I am the song of courage, and the melody of freedom you long to sing.
I am a fearless mother.
I am a passionate lover; a devoted friend.
I am the healer, the witch, the nurturing of your wounds.
I am the heat of a wildfire, the rage of a storm.
I am strong.
Delicate things are pretty-cute, even.
But I am not delicate.
I am wild, fierce and unpredictable.
I am breathtaking.
I am beautiful.
I am sacred.”
―
I am skinny dipping at 2am;
I am dancing naked under the full moon and playing in the mud.
I am the reverberating echoes of a curse word ricocheting off the steeply sloping mountain you thought I couldn’t climb;
I am bare skin in the deepest depths of winter; I am the song of courage, and the melody of freedom you long to sing.
I am a fearless mother.
I am a passionate lover; a devoted friend.
I am the healer, the witch, the nurturing of your wounds.
I am the heat of a wildfire, the rage of a storm.
I am strong.
Delicate things are pretty-cute, even.
But I am not delicate.
I am wild, fierce and unpredictable.
I am breathtaking.
I am beautiful.
I am sacred.”
―
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