🌙 Day 2 of Ramadan…
Ramadan still finds a way to our hearts, waking joy despite everything.
My children watch the hanging lights and ask:
“Did we decorate our home in Beit Hanoun? Was Ramadan this beautiful?”
I tell them: yes… it was even more beautiful.
Gaza once shone with light and joy.
Today we celebrate with what we have —
and carry a deep longing in our hearts. 🤍
Make your support a light for my children ✨
#Ramadan #Ramadan2026 #Gaza #BeitHanoun #Palestine #RamadanSpirit #Hope #Longing

Last night,
the moon lingered in the window’s glow.
From my quiet room,
I whispered to her of something beautiful
that had touched me today.
She asked no questions;
her knowing eyes held the answer already.

#poetry
#lovepoem
#longing

La nuit dernière,
la lune s’attardait dans la lueur de la fenêtre.
Depuis ma chambre silencieuse,
je lui ai chuchoté quelque chose de beau
qui m’avait touché aujourd’hui.
Elle ne posa aucune question ;
ses yeux pleins de savoir détenaient déjà la réponse.

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The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

#Wordle
#wordle1685
#dreamed
#church
#biblestudy
#bible
#longing
#worship
#donations
#outreach

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"One thing I ask from the Lord,
this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord
and to seek him in his temple."

Psalm 27:4 #Bible #longing #worship

Wanna move forward breaking away from the mundane tasks? Well, here's a track for you. It is another attempt to combine dance vocal and video making background music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzmfzjLwJO0

#soundtrack #electronicpop #longing #passionate #femalevocal #music

Vassal to the Dawn

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.

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https://write.as/wolfinwool/vassal-to-the-dawn

‘The Indian youth needs to know there is no shame in setting boundaries’: Sex educator Seema Anand

Anand’s latest book, ‘Speak Easy: A Field Guide to Love, Longing and Intimacy’, answers questions on relationships, kinks, intimacy, self-love and more.

Interview by Rush Mukherjee
Scroll
January 11, 2026

https://scroll.in/article/1089144/the-indian-youth-needs-to-know-there-is-no-shame-in-setting-boundaries-sex-educator-seema-anand

Before we begin a brand new year, let's spice up the spirit and may you have a great year ahead! Here is a perfect soundtrack for you. It is another attempt to combine dance vocal and video making background music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-8sCzBZ674

#soundtrack #electronicpop #longing #passionate #femalevocal #music

Wolf Moon

This afternoon the Wolf Moon rose over the tall trees behind the garden, butter-yellow and gleaming in the late daylight, seeming far brighter than the setting sun. Somehow it tugged at our hearts to see it there in the clear air, appearing to hang above the feathery treetops like a memory from another time.

There seems to be something atavistic in our being human that responds to “signs in the sky” – the moon especially – from some pre-scientific place we’ve long since forgotten to be consciously aware of. Wolves have been absent from England since around 1390, and yet the very phrase “Wolf Moon” resonates with some ancient yearning in us. The cold air itself seems to long for something lost.

To sit still by the window in the moonlight is one of the loveliest things at this time of year. In the 8th century CE the Chinese poet Li Bai wrote:

At the foot of my bed, moonlight
Yes, I suppose there is frost on the ground.
Lifting my head I gaze at the bright moon
Bowing my head, thinking of home.

We were already home, watching the moon rise; and yet something of Li Bai’s nostalgia touches me in moonlight. What is it I am longing for? Ah, but it is a sweet longing, though. I don’t expect something to fulfil it. I am at peace in the moonlight. I don’t want anything, and yet. And yet in the New Year’s rising away from the solstice there is a yearning, even when there is no moon. Perhaps as I said there is something in our merely being human that carries with it wordless memories from times we cannot remember, far back before people built cities or wrote history.

Somehow our practice, and whatever philosophy we derive from it, has to leave room for these times of strange resonance. Dear old Li Bai, the poet and traveller of the Tang dynasty, evidently knew all about this.

#acceptance #contemplative #LiBai #longing #poems #reading #simplicity

Need a break after a long year of heavy loads and stressful work? Here's a soundtrack for you. It is another attempt to combine dance vocal and video making background music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z4_VpKBlm4

#soundtrack #electronicpop #longing #passionate #femalevocal #music

Wanna be done with these nuisances? Here's a track for you to detach from those sorrows. It is simply an attempt to combine dance vocal and video making background music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLxYOB6qr3M

#soundtrack #electronicpop #longing #passionate #femalevocal #music

Scene

the night sky, once our mirror,
enveloping two distant souls in joy,
has become a dusty backdrop,
while the stars, like stage daggers,
tear my heart apart,
yet leave me alive.

#poetry #writing #longing

Özlem ve derin hasret, devrimi, yapısal dönüşümü, besler

“the only thing a work of #art can do is create a longing for a different state of being. and that #longing is #revolutionary.”

- heiner müller

“the only thing a work of #art can do is create a longing for a different state of being. and that #longing is #revolutionary.”

- heiner müller

Seriously fed up with all those toxic and dirty tricks your folks pulled in but can't fight back due to livinghood? Here's a soundtrack to smooth you up. It is another attempt to combine dance vocal and video making background music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmw6bJUsrCE

#soundtrack #electronicpop #longing #passionate #femalevocal #music

Serious tired of office politics and dramas and yet you cannot fight back? Well, here's a soundtrack to break it away the frustrations. It is another attempt to combine dance vocal and video making background music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMQ7E5d5B9k

#soundtrack #electronicpop #longing #passionate #femalevocal #music

Longing (AI, v1)

https://video.airikr.me/w/9AT5dGRVt3CbWS7jU7i8BP