This is a Wisteria tree. It is my favorite. Not necessarily its kind (I dearly love the Weeping Willow) but this tree in particular. I don't know the name of the photographer, but I only wish I had met this tree in my childhood. How I would have loved to lie on its winding branches …
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Who is this woman?
I came across her picture on Pinterest while searching for red lipstick. (Shut up.) I think she's gorgeous!
A Disappointing Day for America
Alas, the United States government has declared that mermaids do not exist, as TIME magazine writes maliciously in an article, “Sorry, Ariel, looks like you’ll never be part of our world.” It continues, The U.S. National Ocean Service (NOS) made the firm announcement that mermaids do not exist. This announcement came in response to public …
Shoes; Or, Nahida falls. Again. This time without injury.
Last evening, I spun myself on a stair near the bottom to leap to the next, and, in landing, weighed on my high heel at the edge of the first step rather than the center of the next and fell straight to the close floor. A group of three friends, who were awaiting my arrival …
Continue reading Shoes; Or, Nahida falls. Again. This time without injury.
I kind of want…
to tattoo the words through Whom you demand your mutual rights (4:1) a quarter way down my right shoulder, but I wouldn’t know how to reconcile getting a tattoo, which is considered haraam (mutilation), with the irony of it being a Quranic verse. I’ll probably just engrave it on a necklace.
And speaking of beauty…
Flowers on a nearby street: Subhan'Allah.
It is Tuesday. Here is a plant.
Plant(s). My youngest little brother has taken to growing plants in questionable containers by his windowsill, a feat I had never accomplished though I daydreamed of and romanticized it often. They are two baby tomato plants. I would tell you their names, but I have not been home frequently enough to familiarize myself with their …
the fatal feminist 