sitting on the floor, laughing to myselfTumblr (3.0; @imaginedlives)http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/65ce1355e239ae4c4f9bab07b1069405/tumblr_mjeledEhWt1rs1gaeo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50796442404http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50796442404Sun, 19 May 2013 00:15:33 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1bdb2730494a8caced6ff72fc62fc312/tumblr_mmzzg5f8i51qd7f8vo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thats-all-i-can-say.tumblr.com/post/50777993679/untitled-by-nicholas-strobelt-on-flickr">thats-all-i-can-say</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/strobelights/8748820517/" title="untitled">untitled</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/strobelights/">nicholas.strobelt</a> on Flickr.</p> </blockquote>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50794956627http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50794956627Sat, 18 May 2013 23:40:01 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a78023feb351c1411db9e3dfb53b7d2c/tumblr_mmtcrzyVJP1r1hjqso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50763191261http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50763191261Sat, 18 May 2013 15:28:18 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4dvuf6TcW1qb7x0ko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50759257235http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50759257235Sat, 18 May 2013 14:32:58 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a74d6677d5f22006600d8ad241ff5dcb/tumblr_mmt0qwFwQL1qhmuzfo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50638330645http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50638330645Thu, 16 May 2013 23:46:40 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e10bae2f94bf1d95f4a95a9388ab4548/tumblr_mmx9ruExD61rn0oofo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://touchdisky.tumblr.com/post/50626525301/iceland-by-nuubzta">touchdisky</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><code>Iceland by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hj0lli/">Nuubzta</a></code></p> </blockquote>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50638239294http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50638239294Thu, 16 May 2013 23:44:03 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2d3e49a5a992f1ea75c45c6269ac8ad1/tumblr_mg8j13n92d1ranjxuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50636151484http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50636151484Thu, 16 May 2013 22:50:03 -0700<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nVjsGKrE6E8?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Summertime Sadness</p> <p>Lana Del Rey</p>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50479763859http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50479763859Tue, 14 May 2013 22:38:27 -0700lana del reysummertime sadness<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a8e802c5c68e2667d985cc0174a19ae5/tumblr_mmrlbieLRV1rwuj4qo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50409110705http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50409110705Tue, 14 May 2013 01:28:24 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/66e0516440b519e2625bc893d30d118e/tumblr_mmrx52w5qh1r6xsado1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://excitumbl.tumblr.com/post/50403618905/loved-the-site-of-our-caravan">excitumbl</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Loved the site of our caravan…</p> </blockquote>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50407796040http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50407796040Tue, 14 May 2013 00:38:21 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb615jj8vV1rdzt27o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50406542981http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50406542981Mon, 13 May 2013 23:57:08 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/565fbbcdcf92f6fd168a5b9bc6637e5e/tumblr_mmmu0kqoMe1rkp5aho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://south-england.tumblr.com/post/50179888127/buring-horizons-thomas-hanks">south-england</a>:</p> <blockquote> <pre><em>Buring Horizons</em> »» <a href="http://south-england.tumblr.com/">Thomas Hanks</a></pre> </blockquote>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50323738634http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50323738634Sun, 12 May 2013 22:17:30 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1ec3041c96ad61f163a1248dfc4c9a3b/tumblr_mm7fviF0Yg1rkwf2ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://evocates.tumblr.com/post/49491515515/untitled-by-evan-j-atwood">evocates</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Untitled. (by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/evanatwood/8436478943/in/faves-67604565@N06/">Evan J Atwood</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50322278392http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50322278392Sun, 12 May 2013 21:50:39 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6821f70a4ead2c776eb5dfd382253347/tumblr_mg0pcfYChp1r0ixdro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://furples.tumblr.com/post/39502098062/napes-needle">furples</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenrunnerman/">Napes needle</a></p> </blockquote>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50321800814http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50321800814Sun, 12 May 2013 21:42:30 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/bf29b6d3dc2f44cb1642ae7e5076f9b8/tumblr_mmps39j99Z1qeewtvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://acutelesbian.tumblr.com/post/50309705500/pretty-skies">acutelesbian</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Pretty skies.</p> </blockquote>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50310495013http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50310495013Sun, 12 May 2013 19:06:56 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/767a6eec40d110073e3c0cc0257ba3b2/tumblr_mjmz48fAWl1rqvhrco1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50074284452http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/50074284452Thu, 09 May 2013 23:26:56 -0700“<p>After learning my flight was detained 4 hours,<br/> I heard the announcement:<br/> If anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic,<br/> Please come to the gate immediately.</p> <p>Well—one pauses these days. Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there.<br/> An older woman in full traditional Palestinian dress,<br/> Just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing loudly.<br/> Help, said the flight service person. Talk to her. What is her<br/> Problem? we told her the flight was going to be four hours late and she<br/> Did this.</p> <p>I put my arm around her and spoke to her haltingly.<br/> Shu dow-a, shu- biduck habibti, stani stani schway, min fadlick,<br/> Sho bit se-wee?</p> <p>The minute she heard any words she knew—however poorly used—<br/> She stopped crying.</p> <p>She thought our flight had been canceled entirely.<br/> She needed to be in El Paso for some major medical treatment the<br/> Following day. I said no, no, we’re fine, you’ll get there, just late,</p> <p>Who is picking you up? Let’s call him and tell him.<br/> We called her son and I spoke with him in English.<br/> I told him I would stay with his mother till we got on the plane and<br/> Would ride next to her—Southwest.</p> <p>She talked to him. Then we called her other sons just for the fun of it.</p> <p>Then we called my dad and he and she spoke for a while in Arabic and<br/> Found out of course they had ten shared friends.</p> <p>Then I thought just for the heck of it why not call some Palestinian<br/> Poets I know and let them chat with her. This all took up about 2 hours.</p> <p>She was laughing a lot by then. Telling about her life. Answering<br/> Questions.</p> <p>She had pulled a sack of homemade mamool cookies—little powdered<br/> Sugar crumbly mounds stuffed with dates and nuts—out of her bag—<br/> And was offering them to all the women at the gate.</p> <p>To my amazement, not a single woman declined one. It was like a<br/> Sacrament. The traveler from Argentina, the traveler from California,<br/> The lovely woman from Laredo—we were all covered with the same<br/> Powdered sugar. And smiling. There are no better cookies.</p> <p>And then the airline broke out the free beverages from huge coolers—<br/> Non-alcoholic—and the two little girls for our flight, one African<br/> American, one Mexican American—ran around serving us all apple juice<br/> And lemonade and they were covered with powdered sugar too.</p> <p>And I noticed my new best friend—by now we were holding hands—<br/> Had a potted plant poking out of her bag, some medicinal thing,</p> <p>With green furry leaves. Such an old country traveling tradition. Always<br/> Carry a plant. Always stay rooted to somewhere.</p> <p>And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and thought,<br/> This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.</p> <p>Not a single person in this gate—once the crying of confusion stopped<br/> —has seemed apprehensive about any other person.</p> <p>They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those other women too.<br/> This can still happen anywhere.</p> <p>Not everything is lost.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em><span>Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952), “Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal.” I think this poem may be making the rounds, this week, but that’s as it should be. </span> (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://oliviacirce.tumblr.com/">oliviacirce</a>)</em>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/49903615461http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/49903615461Tue, 07 May 2013 19:19:24 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6f7c0c4eff236495c30032f6f0152e0d/tumblr_mlo6g88FNI1r03m0qo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6d811c563ba78664bfe58208bba9f09f/tumblr_mlo6g88FNI1r03m0qo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7e6ebf4859a78890ecd996f6afe60d6b/tumblr_mlo6g88FNI1r03m0qo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b9fe665cd4cbe89478c3fc201ac289ef/tumblr_mlo6g88FNI1r03m0qo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/9439aed09e5674658f4458ad25e6440d/tumblr_mlo6g88FNI1r03m0qo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://razorshapes.tumblr.com/post/48626336909/louis-edwin-fry-tumblr-untitled-2012-13">razorshapes</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/louisfry/">Louis Edwin Fry</a> | <a href="http://louisfry.tumblr.com">Tumblr</a> - <em>Untitled</em> (2012-13)</p> </blockquote>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/49902573493http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/49902573493Tue, 07 May 2013 19:07:08 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maiw3x27Et1rn0oofo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/49900697158http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/49900697158Tue, 07 May 2013 18:45:09 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/197fe288f43cdf9e61c47c9233e3b9ac/tumblr_mmgfofd1kK1s7wxvoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/49900147901http://imaginedlives.tumblr.com/post/49900147901Tue, 07 May 2013 18:38:50 -0700