Cultivate Love and Creativity

27 May 2020

To Naseem Hadi Dillman-Hasso:

I am proud of you in every way, but especially value your compassion and generosity, my love. I know you will continue to grow, learn and work to make a better world.

Mahmoud Darwish turns to the moon goddess of the Canaanites to remind us to cultivate love and creativity, and affirm inner and planetary life:

“Poetry is our ladder to the moon
Anat suspends over her garden
like a mirror for hopeless lovers
as she wends her way into deserts for the soul”

— trans. Husain Haddawi

Congratulations!
Love, Mama

— Frances S. Hasso

A person drinking tea in a café
Tea in a Palestinian café

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