so fall can wait

so fall can wait

apologies for leaving my flickr unattended for so long, and then suddenly inundating it with all these crazynewphotos.

i've spent the last two months in morocco - studying arabic, exploring and taking some time to put all of life on hold and just breathe. aside from getting treated to stunning scenery every weekend (when i travel) and gaining a decent grasp of basic اللغة العربية (maha and khalid, anyone? haha), i've been hugely blessed by having time & space to stop, think and pray.

no place like a sand dune, mid-sunrise, in the middle of the Sahara, to a.) figure out what really matters and b.) learn to be still.

[my final oral presentation is tomorrow - i'll finish all the tagging and captions etc afterwards :)]

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the blues

the blues

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ء

ء

hamza! i was toying with words to title this picture but couldn't quite find one that fit what i meant - pause? hold? a halted moment, a breath caught in your heart, stopped in your throat, all time frozen and shrunk to a point of fluttery stillness...?
then i realized, ء is the sound and feeling i was looking for. in arabic a ء often comes at the end of the word, and it's vocalized as a glottal stop (although i hate that phrase it's so ugly). basically it's like you're about to say something but your voice got blocked by a sudden wall of air and you-

pause! stop! catch it, halt! be still just a second the smallest of seconds, amidst your rushing gushing world of consonants and gargles
dash it all, stick a ء in, make everyone take a new breath and a closer look, lean in & spare a moment for the details.

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what is that feeling

what is that feeling

when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? — it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

- jack kerouac, on the road

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poised

poised

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