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Deaths can be counted and bodies can be stacked, but pain carries an immeasurable weight, and neither retribution nor anger can be counted. Tragedies carry numbers, mortalities, amount injured, houses damaged and destroyed, people displaced, but anguish has no number and pain has no calculation. Either it is there, stifling and suffocating every breath, or [...]
When swimming in the ocean and being knocked about by waves, there may come a point when one sweeps you off your feet, turning you end over end, and ultimately overpowering you. It isn’t much to worry about, as the waves come in intervals and give time to recover, to surface and find air. In [...]
Peace and justice are not words written in letters and on blogospheres, dotted across newspaper articles and bandied about at conferences or over cups of coffee. These values do not manifest increasingly with each time the words are thrown about, as they are solid entities that are created through action and not words. Peace is [...]
The sound echoes off the tiled walls, sitting in the air and resonating across the entire bathroom. Standing naked in the shower, I stare down at the porcelain tub and watch the stubble fall like black dust, slowly making its way to the ground at my feet. Scraping along my skin, first across my face, [...]
