I spotted Yaz in Kelso! (via UmrSlm)
[Reason #4,563 why i love the rockstars on flickr. also, i think it may be the same car as this, which makes me laugh even more. -yasmine]
1 week ago
I spotted Yaz in Kelso! (via UmrSlm)
[Reason #4,563 why i love the rockstars on flickr. also, i think it may be the same car as this, which makes me laugh even more. -yasmine]
1 week ago
Southwold (via Number Six)
[i want to be there right now, in one of those crayola-colored houses. -y]
1 week ago
[never underestimate how distressing such a situation is. -yasmine]
1 week ago
“Create beautiful children; Marry an Arab” (via Lawrence L)
[ha! to my sister & futurebrotherinlaw: i demand beautiful nieces and nephews, ya hear? eventually ;) -y]
3 weeks agoSherman Alexie - A Native Son With No Borders - NYTimes.com
[not sure how i feel about him, but that last line made me laugh — partly in disbelief. -y]
1 month ago
walking on air (via Vivienne ~ Vivacious Photography)
[drinking coffee is never a good idea — and on the rare occasions i try it, i’m reminded why i don’t like it. it accelerates my heartbeat, makes me feel anxious and blue — something i can’t afford these days, when i’ve got so much going on. this photo makes me breathe easy.
vivienne’s weblog is here, too. -yasmine]
1 month agoFuzon - Khamaj
Another of semi-classical song from Pakistan. Video shows the glorious period of Pakistani film industry which met its fate in late 70s and only recently has started to make a respectable resurgence.
(HD mode recommended)
[ =) one of the first times i watched this video was with my brother, 5 years ago, and it still makes me think of him, since he’s all about cinema and film-production. -yasmine]
1 month agoTruths to be self-edited - Emily Magazine
[yeah, i want to love writing weblog posts again, too. -y]
1 month ago
via The Sartorialist
how cute is she!
[of course she’s cute! her name’s Yasmine! ;) i love her hair so much. -y]
1 month ago
Coffee makes the morning OK
[substitute ‘hot chocolate’ for ‘coffee,’ and that’s me warming up my hands on my daily cup. sometimes it’s the only thing to look forward to in the mornings/what makes coming into work bearable. -y]
1 month ago…All this will lead to Louder Than A Bomb: The Chicago Youth Poetry Festival which takes place in February and March. The winners and all teams will then go back to their schools and communities and in April perform and provide writing workshops in elementary schools, libraries, and park districts around the city. The city will be abuzz with language and records of now from people who are normally never heard from, the youth. Seen and now heard.
As for Obama, we invite him to be a judge at this year’s finals. He can sit and listen and hear what the grassroots around Hyde Park, and city wide, are going thru. How they want to be safe, how they want their peers to be safe, here and abroad. He can give the poems Olympic-style scores, ranging from 0 to 10. He can listen to the crowd scream, Listen to the Poem! Then he and his crew can stop playing, and say they did some work to bring the games to the city. Games that matter, hope, save, and are safe.
But we shouldn’t wait for politicians and celebrities to build a world and city that is just and equitable.
We do this work.
Teachers, students, rogue school administrators, artists whose work matters, parents. Regular folk who get up and work, who greet the sun. We are the ones who change culture and society.
[i think i’m kind of in love with this plan. -y]
1 month agoEboo Patel at The Faith Divide: The Battlegrounds of America - On Faith at washingtonpost.com
[More about Eboo Patel and his organization here. -y]
1 month ago