"Whoso loves, believes the impossible."

-- Elizabeth Barret Browning

LOL intertubez!

I can't get this song out of my head:



So catchy!

Let it be known that in the event of my untimely demise I want the box of chocolates one. This is my dying wish. I WILL haunt you...

Creepy gnome terrorizes town

1. Skulk around creepily
2. ?
3. Profit

"When you are not a free man, time passes more slowly: your soul is delayed and defeated along the way. You unconsciously moderate your actions and responses in order to be prepared for any evil. Any unexpected capriciousness of the occupier. Or of the situation itself. The time which passes for the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza under Israeli rule cannot even be measured in prison terms. Its end is unknown, and this makes it even harder to deal with. I asked Shehade if he had not tired at the end of these five years, at the end of twenty years, of being sumud*

'No,' he said, 'I go on believing in it. Of the two ways open to me as a Palestinian--to surrender to the occupation and collaborate with it, or to take up arms against it, two possibilities which mean, to my mind, losing one's humanity--I choose the third way. To remain here. To see how my home has become my prison, which I do not want to leave, because the jailer will then not allow me to return.'"

- David Grossman, The Yellow Wind, 1988

[*sumud is "to endure," applied to Palestinian refugees living under Israeli occupation]

One decade later, and still no hope for the Palestinians.