Status Updates From El juego de las golondrinas

This is good, so sad but the reality of many Lebanese during the war

“Sfouf was Anhala’s favorite cake. It was definitely the easiest cake to bake at the time. You didn’t need chocolate or eggs. All it took was flour, vegetable oil, sugar, and curcuma (turmeric), which gave it that special flavor and a pretty yellow color.”

[about war] “from my untutored viewpoint, a bunch of old guys send a bunch of young guys out to kill and die while ordinary people like you and me, caught in the middle, simply try to survive. And sometimes, in the course of surviving, we do beautiful things.”