Apologies for the irregularity in the posts. I know I have no reason to apologize but at the same time there are a few friends who look forward to reading regular posts. Also apologies for the hassle of making this completely a private invited only blog, reason being when I saw that someone from tel aviv, Israel was reading my blog for an extensive period of time, I’m not gonna lie, I got paranoid.
I’ve entertained the thought of blogging about little stories here and there, snippets of life I suppose, like I have been doing and writing about the more serious, detailed stuff, that I don’t feel comfortable blogging about in emails to friends. Truth of the matter is sometimes its hard to squeeze any words out under a constant mental pressure, which is why I’ve actually found myself avoiding even this venue, the blog, to stay connected. Sometimes I’m at a complete loss of what to even say because my brain has gone through rounds of rapid fire thoughts about a plethora of different issues simultaneously.
A brief and concise update about my personal life: teaching/school ends in one week, I might be (inshAllah) going to Damascus to dedicate the summer to some intensive Arabic learning, I have a new roommate who is phenomenal (a lovely girl from Florida, who is a new Muslim convert) and my friend from UNC, a Palestinian American, who just arrived about three days ago (both of these individuals have given me so much to think about and so much to reflect on, that it has quite literally put a very interesting spin and twist on my perception of Palestine). I spent an intense day in Nablus this past Sunday on a tour of the old city with a young man, a medic, during the invasion of 2002 that left me appalled, angry, and awed at what I didn’t know, what the world doesn’t know, and how much just goes on untold about the extent of evil that can be committed by people.
More to come on all of this soon. inshAllah.
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