Riverbend on the act of listening

"Buddha" by Octavio Ocampo

"Buddha" by Octavio Ocampo
Image credit: Dave Kaelin's blog Silk Roads and Siamese Smiles

Kul wahid yihtajleh galub memdeshen.
(Every person [you listen to] requires a brand new heart.)
— Iraqi proverb, cited and translated by Riverbend in her blog entry for November 9th, 2003. Available in Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq, Volume 2, (New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2005), p. 131.

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"Kul wahid yihtajleh galub memdeshen"
Riverbend Posted on behalf of on Thursday, January 28th, 2010 under Quotations.

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