Robin Mohr

@robinmsf.bsky.social

Strategist, interpreter, gardener. California native, Philly resident, granddaughter of migrants. Avid reader of speculative fiction. Quaker, swimmer, writer.

An active-duty soldier experiences a sudden moral awakening that leaves him trapped inside the military machine he can no longer answer to. We go inside the barracks to discover the Quakers who are helping him get out. quakerpodcast.com/a-quaker-gui...

A Quaker Guide to Leaving the Military

An active-duty soldier experiences a sudden moral awakening that leaves him trapped inside the military machine he can no longer answer to. We go inside the barracks to discover the Quakers who are…

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I would like to tell her not to wear such flimsy shoes, that rubble contains the whole spectrum of knowable and unknowable dangers… —Marjorie Lotfi, “Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza, 2014)” from THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2023

Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza, 2014)
Marjorie Lotfi

I would like to tell her not to wear such flimsy shoes,
that rubble contains the whole spectrum of knowable
and unknowable dangers: sheets of metal ripped
to knife edge, live wires, bloated arms reaching

for light. Her hair, scraped back into a ponytail,
is open to sky; remnants of buildings filter down
one concrete chunk at a time, and the midday bells
of rockets ring out above her. She carries a boy

on her still narrow hips, his legs entwined around
her yellow dungarees. Like a rodeo rider, his left arm
grips her shoulder to steady himself, or her,
while his torso reels back and away; his body

is asking to slow down, to turn back. Instead,
her eyes comb the ground for a next step, fingers
of her free hand curled into a claw, as if
to frighten off what she somehow sees ahead.A young Palestinian girl wearing a yellow t-shirt, yellow dungarees, and plastic sandals carries an even younger child – a small boy, wearing a pale blue vest and shorts – on her hip across a tangle of rubble from a building that police said was destroyed by an Israeli air strike, in the Burij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, August 1, 2014. The girl takes a long step forward across the concrete debris that litters the ground, looking down at her feet, one arm stretched out in front of her. The small boy leans backwards, cradled by her other arm.

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Amal El-Mohtar@amalelmohtar.com · 2mo ago

“The report by the UN independent international commission of inquiry examined violations against Palestinian children since the start of the war in Gaza, and said about 30% of the people killed by Israeli forces have been children.”

So, I could use some connections if anyone has them. I moved to Pennsylvania for a remote job that required me to not be in California. Great job! But, my housing I arranged has fallen apart. My second housing fell apart. I’ve been in and working from a hotel since April waiting on housing. But,

Traci Higgins, Chair of the Georgetown Board of Regents, speaking of her commitment to the Georgetown Scholars Program, helping low income and first gen college students thrive as Hoyas

A Black woman speaking at the podium at Georgetown reunions, photo of Jack the Bulldog in the background