Thank you so much Andy!

i’ve been desperately trying to figure out how to get my elderly parents and i into Syria the last couple weeks. in a way easy for them. and now all i can think of is maybe actually i’m not ready for this, maybe i can’t handle my parents’ grief from all these decades. maybe this is all too much

and my ever articulate and poetic mother who has a word for everything, didn’t today. she just forwarded us the voice note with a sad emoji. unable to express as her unprocessed grief all these decades has come flooding back 💔

my uncle tells my mother of the pain he felt not knowing where to stand in the graveyard to speak to their mother. to water her grave for the first time. and so he prayed anyway knowing God will accept

but they don’t know where my grandmother is buried, my grandmother who passed away whilst 4 of her 7 children were exiled for then, 20 years, one tortured to death, one then just released from prison after 17 years & my aunt - living then with the grief of her own husband missing in Assad’s prisons

“And today in Syria, for the first time ever, nobody fears live bullets, snipers, tear gas and bombs as they take to reclaim their streets. Our streets in our Syria.”

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