Verbal Rocks: Slingshot of the Mind

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noreply@blogger.com (Flunderr Staff) — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:22:30 PST

hey all im too lazy to restore images from the past 5 years and still pissed off at blogger. so check out my new blog at www.ragingpalestinian.blogspot.com thanks for the loyalty. some day ill come...

Cowards

noreply@blogger.com (Flunderr Staff) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:24:56 PDT

A man is a person who stands next to what he believes in and protects it. A coward is a person who is always full of doubt and second thoughts just because he comes up against a few tests. Cowards...

Lost in a Narrative

noreply@blogger.com (Flunderr Staff) — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:00:04 PDT

I wrote this without knowing where it belongs. I guess language is like a person--struggling for a place that provides comfort and sense. But sometimes being out of place gives life more meaning.She...

Nizar Qabbani and The Stupid Woman

noreply@blogger.com (Flunderr Staff) — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:55:48 PDT

This poem, for me at least, sums up something that continues to turn me away from this place. It still exists, everyday we experience. For an English translation visit this site.رسالة من إمرأة حمقاء...

Easter in Ramallah

noreply@blogger.com (Flunderr Staff) — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:07:37 PDT

Graphics/Pictures Down

noreply@blogger.com (Flunderr Staff) — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:09:52 PDT

I switched google accounts to maintain this blog and unfortunately doing so does not save the photos or carries them over to the next account. Which is absolutely STUPID of Google--I would have...

I Found My Homeland

noreply@blogger.com (Flunderr Staff) — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:21:40 PDT

A portrait of the home I lived in for just a few hours. Hiking from a little Christian village named Aboud, around a mountain, and then up to another small village called Der Ghassaneh. Beautiful...

Last Stone

noreply@blogger.com (Flunderr Staff) — Fri, 20 May 2011 08:45:30 PDT

This is the final stone I cast into the dark, sky waters of faith.Waves ripple the stars with the yearnings of a destitute soulAnd land at the pillar where Satan made his appearance:in my mind.The...

The Diplomatic Pyramid Scheme

noreply@blogger.com (Slingshot) — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:45:18 PDT

I try to avoid TV networks. It is a lot easier for networks to sell a certain message by packaging it with a good voice, dramatic music between segments, the perfect images from angles controlled,...

Revelation of Palestine State of Mind

noreply@blogger.com (Slingshot) — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:39:07 PST

I do not know where my writing fervor went. Or why I disbanded from critical thought all together since the last time I wrote on my own blog. Months without a post is unlike me. Especially when a lot...

Mubarak, You Dirty Bastard

noreply@blogger.com (Slingshot) — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:07:18 PST

Last night Palestinian-American comedian Maysoon Zayid visited Ramallah, after finally being able to give a show in Jerusalem itself. After every show she closes with the hope that next year, a show...

Language Assessment and Responsible Terminology

noreply@blogger.com (Slingshot) — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:27:51 PST

The following article discusses a romantic ideal that I wish to share, the idea that sadness and struggle can be the root to beautiful and unique creations. I personally enjoy such articles and am a...

I Sit Upon these Steps and Wait

noreply@blogger.com (Slingshot) — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:03:32 PST

The difference between nature and the human mind is that so long as the mind functions, all things can stay alive. Those flowers died on that step, blew into the wind, and disappeared. And perhaps...

Red Pen Mind Comments

noreply@blogger.com (Slingshot) — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:59:41 PDT

--"I hate the Palestinian people, but I have no issue with the land." And I look around and figure the brutality of nationalism, why we pound our faces into dust. --"I feel like I must live in...

Permanent Residence

noreply@blogger.com (Slingshot) — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:05:57 PST

A sudden sadness poured over me like rotten milk Clumps of expired memoriesDrenching cereal stale from time's quarantined hospital chillIn a destitute urban kitchen with brown stained linesParting...

A Walk Through Ramallah--Farmers Market

noreply@blogger.com (Slingshot) — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:11:57 PDT

Art Exhibit Calls for a Change

noreply@blogger.com (Slingshot) — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:08:43 PDT

A friend and I search through rocks with special calls to action inscribed on each fragment at Beit Annisa in the Masyoon neighborhood of Ramallah Check out a friend's art exhibit which has been...

Ramallah Fall

noreply@blogger.com (Slingshot) — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:22:09 PDT

Educational Smores

noreply@blogger.com (Slingshot) — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:19:44 PST

To expose students to other cultures is something that is central to many foreign programs here. Of course, without being naive, everyone, it is safe to assume that this is done because countries...

Dance Interpretation of Recent Negotiations

noreply@blogger.com (Slingshot) — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:18:55 PDT

Don't get offended by this if you have been cruising through headlines about the ridiculous display put on by all parties involved in the most recent "peace negotiations" with Israel, Palestine, and...

Politics and Coffee

noreply@blogger.com (Slingshot) — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:47:52 PDT

I was grading papers and suddenly a camera appeared with a woman in a cut top. I did not understand what they were speaking, it was not Arabic but something with a lot of the same throat clearing...

Thanksgiving at the Birth of October

noreply@blogger.com (Slingshot) — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:13:03 PDT

An olive branch from my family's olive tree. Peace in darkness is true security. I thank God for my new friends, family, those across oceans or borders who ask. For my situation here, for what I...

Dogs and Students, Teachers and Dogs

noreply@blogger.com (Slingshot) — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:39:01 PDT

I want to try to explore what education is, what it can constitute, and what it can obstruct as well. Yes, the thing we call education can be just as much a liberator as it can be an oppressor. I...

Binaries

noreply@blogger.com (Slingshot) — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:52:41 PDT

Babies are born through passing. Lovers bond heartbreak into an abode. Success greets while failure interrupts. The sun rises and sets all at once.

The Birth of a King--Bethlehem

noreply@blogger.com (Slingshot) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:45:26 PDT

Bethlehem this summer is rather interesting. Because of the political climate there were far more tourists visiting the birthplace of Jesus Christ. It was the first time in months I saw African...