
thoughtsandpages is a substack about writing and reading and everything in between
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There are kinds of forgiveness we offer others almost artlessly, small pardons that pass through us like polite gestures. We excuse lateness, forgive a sharp word, a broken promise, sometimes even the silence of someone who never apologizes...
“In my darkest night,
when the moon was covered
and I roamed through wreckage,
a nimbus-clouded voice
directed me:
“live in the layers,
not on the litter.”
—Stanley Kunitz, “The layers”
I was in the mid...
I wasn’t intending to write this essay.
I am sitting at my desk. It is late in the morning. The sky is turning that bright, weightless blue that only appears for a few minutes before noon. I have tea in my cup. Jasmine flavored. Slightly c...
captured during one of my strolls through the streets of downtown Algiers. June 2025
Tables too close together. Chairs scape loudly. A glass of water already sweating. The air conditioner is broken. Or slow. Or both. A man reads the paper...
When did it start, this habit of lying still and looking at the ceiling? I tilt my head just enough so my eyes can follow the subtle drift of clouds outside my window. Maybe it started when I was younger, when words— even when I said them r...
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