🚨Dr. Nada, who was on a medical mission in Gaza, shared this memory about my cousin’s son, Kinan a five year old boy, the only survivor of his family after an Israeli airstrike.
“One of the best things that ever happened to me in Gaza was a five-year-old boy named Kinan.
He had lost everything — his mother, his father, his three brothers — all taken in front of his eyes.
He survived with his bowels torn open, his tiny arm crushed in pieces, still plastered, still healing.
And yet, he was the one who healed me.
Every time I sat on the hospital floor, tired, broken, trying not to cry, he would come to me with his little smile and say,
‘Don’t be sad, Aunty Nada. They’re in a happy place in heaven. Take a deep breath. Trust God’s plans.’
There were no psychologists, no therapists, no playrooms.
But there was Kinan — a miracle of resilience, a child who carried more grace than the whole world’s experts combined.
Despite all the pain, there are moments in Gaza that feel like miracles, irresistible moments of joy that you cannot find anywhere else.
Kinan would not leave until he saw me laugh.
He’d hold my hand and somehow make the war quiet.
I miss him dearly.
I love you, Kinan ❤️”
WHERE IS HE!?!!! This is Dr. Mu'ath Abu Rakba, the ONLY veterinarian working in northern Gaza and he has been MISSING SINCE FRIDAY!!!
Please share this! WE NEED TO FIND HIM!!!
*One month before her 95th birthday, Patricia Routledge wrote something that still gently echoes:*
**“I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude.”**
My life didn’t quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily — on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions — but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn’t quite found.
At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with — Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people’s living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks. It healed something in me.
At 60, I began learning Italian — not for work, but so I could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.
At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage — something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.
At 80, I took up watercolor painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.
Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I’m learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter — though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.
**I’m writing this to tell you something simple:**
**Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter — if you let yourself bloom again.**
Let these years ahead be your *treasure years*.
You don’t need to be famous. You don’t need to be flawless.
You only need to show up — fully — for the life that is still yours.
*With love and gentleness,*
— Patricia Routledge
@EddieSan11@drogba_meko@BusterBeaver69@RealCaveMan88 Does this mean that Europeans came to Africa to build infrastructure for black people and not for themselves? No resources were stolen? They "developed" the land out of the goodness of their hearts for the Africans they despise? R.u.4.real?
@AspieInsanity@melusi_mabanga@Angela221510541@cy Saying "Go sit in your hut and cope" after claiming "We are just as African as any of you. Bloody coloniser. " shows how you can never lay any claim on being African, because you still have the colonizer mindset.
@AspieInsanity@SnikiweNews@Angela221510541@cy "Oh, but you claim Africa for all Africans and Europe for all Europeans. On that premise, all African Americans should return to Africa as well."
Actually, if all European Americans return to Europe and all AA return to Africa, then native tribes could have their land back. Good!
@AspieInsanity@SnikiweNews@Angela221510541@cy There's a difference. They were stolen against their will from Africa to build America. The descendants of those slaves don't know where in Africa their ancestors are from. Colonialists stole them. Colonialists came out of free will to SA to colonize it.