Meditations: Sweetness at a cost: syrup from sap, dates from palms, peace from spiritual & political leaders
Date Palm Trinity (excerpt) — Khaled Mattawa … Those were my brothers who cowered beneath the date palm to gather handfuls of fruit, rubbing each date clean on their sleeves, chewing softly to savor the taste as though it were a good omen, and rising to resume their lives, on their faces the smiles of […]