Little Afghan girl, the scars left after an explosion. North of Kabul.
Her smile. <3
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“After being served numerous rounds of tea, one of the nutritional surveyors brought forth a father carrying his tiny child – a baby of 4 weeks, who had been sick with diarrhea for one week, and now looked like an emaciated bird. The father sat on the edge of the pink frilly mattress, and cried while I asked questions about the baby’s illness. The father, speaking fluent French, described how days earlier he had walked 4 hours each way with the baby in search of help from the nearest health centre. The health centre had been closed, and he had returned home with the baby.”
— Trish Newport is working for MSF as a community outreach nurse in Chad. This is her fifth mission for MSF. When not on mission, she lives and works as a nurse in the Yukon, Canada.
Read from her blog. (via doctorswithoutborders)
My first tattoo, done by Joe Finch at Ink By Finch.
It says ‘Expecto Patronum’, a spell in Harry Potter which has deep meanings for me.
From the first time I read the book and the spell came out I already fell in love with the concept and ideology that J.K. Rowling came up with.The spell actually means ‘I await for a protector” in Latin.
In the Harry Potter itself, ‘Expecto Patronum” is used to repel Dementors. Dementor is the guard of the Azkaban prison, a dark creature that absorbs your joy and happiness. So, in other words, the spell is used to repel all the bad aura that wants to steal happiness from me.The unique thing about it is, if you want to cast the spell, you have to think of things that make you happy. The happier your memory is, the stronger your patronus will be.
That’s what I hope I will see every time I look at my tattoo, the pictures of places I’ve been to, my good friends, families, and all the good memories I’ve had with them.
I got them all in my arm as my Patronus.
So, what’s your strongest Patronus?
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Phases Like The Moon: Heaven in My Hell -
Your words
The unparalleled effect of your words
Your soul
The relentless passion of your soul
Moving
Resonating
Reverberating
In the spaces between my lungs
nestled tightly
wrapped securely
around my heart.
Your words
Your soul
caused a movement within…
seen going around Facebook. here’s the article where the quote originally appeared.
“When righteousness withers away and evil rules the land, we come into being, age after age, and take visible shape, and move, a man among men, for the protection of good, thrusting back evil and setting virtue on her seat again.” — Mahatma Gandhi
Syrian and powerless? Don’t know what to do? The best thing to be done right now is to unshed your ignorance.
Educate yourself to your country’s modern history. Read about the last fifty years, not through the visors put on you since your childhood, but with a fresh mind.
Read objectively, and find several sources. Read about prior human rights campaigns (there are many). Find out how they failed, why the failed…
Read about the other powers at work in your country.. increase your knowledge substantially. Because knowledge is power, a power we might very well require.
from 1984 by George Orwell
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look at these high smiley faces!
Smile :)
Tissue cross section of marram grass leaf.
I have grass leaf named after me (yes I’m ignoring the typo) and it has awesome cross section.
#WIN
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