And heres the follow-up list: 15 Things I Do Understand. 1. Waking up not sure what country Im in 2. Hearing my name spoken by dear friends/lovers in a dozen languages 3. Getting barrelled in a wave so big that it feels like touching God 4. Carrying everything I own in the world in one bag, past age 40 5. Having my head cracked open for defending a Muslim from being attacked on the street 6. The flash of hundreds of cameras pointed at me 7. Saying goodbye to my family, unsure if I will ever see them again 8. The long pause in your mind when someone asks “So where are you from?” 9. Running out of pages in your passport, again... 10. Claiming the dead body of a friend at the embassy 11. That nations are all figments of our collective imagination 12. Putting a needle in my own arm 13. What the 13th Century Persian poet Jalal al-Din Rumi meant when he said “What was said to the rose to make it open was said to me, here in my chest.” 14. Dancing at sunrise 15. Swimming naked in ocean at sunset
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 12:40:01 +0000
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