Maria Auxiliadora

Mother, thank you for the gift of life. Rest in Peace.

I Don't Care About Your Religion

 ANA KASPARIAN 

will speak for me and MILLIONS OF people WHO JUST WANT TO LIVE IN PEACE.

to all RELIGIONS

to my fellow AMERICANS 

A FUNDRAISING to FEED PALESTINIANS

Let's FUND THE UNRWA  ourselves.

The Myth of Empathy

Would you be okay coming into this world as an orphan?

If there was a way to translate a question into emotions already lived in the future, I would not be alive.The next statement will never be understood by anyone who had parents; being an orphan is a different sort of pain; a pain that never subsides, it envelop us, I have to accept, until the day we die.

Those thoughts, like pretty much any other thought I have these days, flourish from the surreal crimes the creatures name israelis are committing in Palestine. They have now, single handily, created NINETEEN THOUSAND ORPHANS in the world in only three months.

 When future generations learn about israel and israeli"s crimes, they will be missing a major part of the events we are witnessing live: empathy for israelis and israel. Fleeting. Faint. Almost non existent empathy, except in very brief moments when their new inventive cruel ways make us doubtful. 

In the future, israel's legacy will be the fleeting empathy we had with israel and israelis while we watched them commit crime after crime. Acts of violence that were so heinous that it lit up our empathy and gave them, for a brief second, the benefit of being a human being. And yet, time and time again we came to find out that they went beyond what we had already thought as evil:

like invading a hospital dressed as doctors and nurses and then killing patients and children:

like preventing food and water to be distributed to the starving population, but leaving behind little canister marked as military food so that children could find it and open, and die ,when, in fact, their hope for sustenance ended up being a grenade;

like the shooting of their own israeli citizens in cold blood when they were shouting in Hebrew, partially undressed and waving a white flag:

like an israeli sniper shooting two christian women in a catholic church and killing them as they made their way to the bathroom.

like the little Palestinian boy and his brother who were chased by the IDF and ran into his house, and before the soldiers had a chance to get him he died of a hear attack. A little boy died of a heart attack caused by fear.

like forcing doctors and nurses out of a hospital AT GUN POINT and condemning to death the days old infants that had no one to feed them. Babies that starved to death alone. 

These moments, upon hearing this, our empathy were with the IDF soldiers, with israelis, with israel. " It can't be true." we briefly thought until the video evidence once again surprised us. Many of these videos proudly shot by the israelis themselves.

like the artist and filmmaker, Steven Spielberg who once said in an interview that "Empathy is the most important sentiment in cinema." and then directed the masterpiece Schindler's List. 

And now, there will not be a single honest human being in this world, who sees that film, and won't be divided by the end of it: 

ONE the atrocity committed against Jews is something so horrific that the entire world need to make sure it never happens to anyone else.

TWO the Jewish man who made this movie knows about Gaza, about the concentration camp in the backyard of israel, about the daily murder of Palestinians and yet, he said nothing about it to anyone. And when, in a plot point so absurd no writer would ever write it, the people of israel began killing children for over ONE HUNDRED DAYS, destroying HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITIES, CHURCHES, MOSQUES, HOMES and displacing over ONE MILLION PEOPLE. 

When all of these event took place LIVE ON THE INTERNET FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD TO SEE.

Mr. Spielberg and his fellow ZIONISTS in Hollywood went to work threatening every single person and assuring their silent complicity in the Genocidal taking place in the land of Jesus of Nazareth. 

It seems to me, as an atheist, that if there is a God, he has indeed chosen the jewish people of israel to unite us all. Their cruelty lit up our humanity.

It is a well known fact now that israel are masters of propaganda and perennial liars. So just like the moguls in Hollywood, they changed the narrative and made themselves the heroes. Never missing a single opportunity to tell everyone that God has chosen them as the " pupil of His eyes" and that " we are the good ones. Fighting the evil Arabs for all of you."

Problem is, our internet is working.

My ❤️ and SOUL Belongs to Palestinians

This is a crime against our own humanity; each Palestinian life taken dims our collective light a bit more.

I'm grateful for the food they are about to eat. Praise Allah 🙏

2 Babies Under a Building

Watch a little child climbing from under a building in Gaza. 

INHUMANE 

doesn't begin to describe this madness.

Une Recette Pour Une Belle Vie

   

     Sometimes, the memories of my grandmother overwhelms me and I have to go searching for pieces of my history online; the history that formed me as a human being was written in Afonso Arinos, a small village located on the borderline of the states of Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. Minas Gerais, undoubtedly, one of the most beautiful places in the world. 

     Just type the name of a few of its cities in your image search box and you can begin to plan your next vacation: Diamantina, Tiradentes,  Congonhas, Sao Joäo del Rey, Mariana, and the second most beautiful city in the world for me: Ouro Preto. New York City being forever my favorite city, followed by Paris, which lost the second place in my heart when I visited Ouro Preto em 2015.

     Tonight, for whatever reason, I typed Rio das Flores into my search box and discovered the beautiful Fazenda do Paraizo, owned by the beautiful couple, Paulo Roberto Botelho and his wife, Simone Botelho. There's so much I could say about the property but my words will fall short to describe the beauty of this place. You can see it for yourself.

     The second Fazenda was a nice surprise since I know the family who owns it; we all grew up in Afonso Arinos; merely 10 minutes away from where  Fazenda Santa Justa is located. An added layer of nostalgia is the fact that Vanessa Cardäo, the young woman describing the place is related to the girl I loved when I was 9 years old. 

     Then it came to me why I had a hard time talking about the beauty of both places; certain experiences have to be lived, not described. And in living it, day to day, a human being can begin to form a receipt pour une belle vie. 

     Here's how the exquisite Vanessa Cardäo describes Fazenda Santa Justa::

 "Essa fazenda pra mim tem gosto de memória, de lembrança, de felicidade, de valores, de família e de Deus também." Clarissa Cardäo. 

 "For me this farm "tastes" like memory, remembrance, happiness, values, family, and God too." Clarissa Cardäo. 

     Words to live by. What else is there to say?