Twenty Things

edition forty-five

Hello to those of you new here, welcome to Twenty Things.

Over the last few years I’ve been collating and collecting things I’m loving or enjoying—this is where I shared all my many resources and special interests that I’ve scoured through the internet. I’m so grateful to constantly find beloved treasures in the outside and online worlds that I can share on here. I am understanding how much of survival is finding imagination — but not in a delusional way, as Ahdaf Soueif recently contemplated at a live talk I saw her speak at. We must funnel imagination into something revolutionary, but that must include beauty.

It’s also brings me joy to share what is bringing me joy… as the feeling itself has been sporadic and hard to sustain around such continued despair. Yet, sweetness does sustain the fight. It gives us courage to continue. It reminds us of life.

The multi-talented Randa Jarrar, a dear friend and comrade, will be touring LA with several shows in her one-person show, The Last Palestinian. It is apart of this year’s Hollywood Fringe and all proceeds from this show will go to support families in Gaza. You can buy tickets here.

Here’s a little bit about the show: It is a dramedy using absurdist humor, archetypal characters, and Palestinian folklore. Randa charts humanity’s spectacular downfall through the story of a young woman enduring the genocide and figures like the beloved Francesca Albanese will even make an appearance... I believe this show will be deeply cathartic for those of you, who, like me, are trying to find new ways everyday to help process this grief into action.

If you are in LA please support Randa so she can continue helping her people.

Through art, through imagination, through explorations of finding the political, the playful, poetic and to find new ways to exist in spite of the tyranny. We find the spirit to continue in the recognition of life, and the profundity that each day, each moment, we are granted yet another life. In the last few months I’ve realized how I honor the martyrs, the spirit of the dead, is by honoring my own life as much as I can. To not take my breath for granted, to speak when I know I must.

I vow to never take my life, this moment, the honor of my voice, and this space to speak, for granted.

Enjoy this iteration of Twenty Things.

All my love, f