{Quotes:Nitya prakash/Richard siken ,crush}
![text id: [Five times a day, I make tea. I do this because I like the warmth in my hands, like the feeling of self-directed kindness. I’m not used to it— warmth and kindness, both—so I create my own when I can. ]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/8b7dbdfa7e925e4d8f1f342b8b6ec8d4/e5646659d13990a5-70/s1280x1920/34122d01177c13994c6e515e42c5864d10be5f79.jpg)
ALTLeila Chatti, “Tea”
Erika L. Sánchez, from Lessons on Expulsion: Poems; “Amá”
[Text ID: “In One Hundred Years of Solitude, / Márquez wrote that we are birthed / by our mothers only once, but life obligates / us to give birth / to ourselves over and over.”]
- Mahmoud Darwish from 'Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut c. 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)
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