Khedi Konchieva, 15, goes on a date with her boyfriend in the village of Serzhen-Yurt. A couple on a date in Chechnya must meet in public and sit a few feet apart. Any form of intimate contact is forbidden; some young woman who have sex before marriage risk death at the hands of their family.
Chechen authorities are the unseen presence in Diana Markosian’s photographs of girls growing up in Chechnya. See more here.
Hitchen's brother's eulogy, just posted on the DailyMail
Peter Hitchens, conservative British columnist, is the polar opposite of his brother, Christopher. Peter has struggled for most of his adult life to escape the long dark shadow of his famous brother. Peter’s been quite successful. His “In Memoriam,” just posted on the Daily Mail, a conservative tab in the UK, is strikingly raw and unpolished - much unlike the majority of today’s obituaries.
Peter (as per usual) doesn’t hold his brother to pedestal. He doesn’t pay the typical high reverence to Hitch that mainstream writers have been doing today. True, Hitch commands, rather than deserves, their praises. Peter, on the other hand, writes with all of the confusion an that comes with loving a brother foremost, and jealously at least. Upon reflection of hearing the news on the radio, Peter wrote,
It is certainly raw. Last week I saw my brother for the last time in a fairly grim hospital room in Houston, Texas. He was in great pain, and suffering in several other ways I will not describe. But he was wholly conscious and in command of his wits, and able to speak clearly.
We both knew it was the last time we would see each other, though being Englishmen of a certain generation, neither of us would have dreamed of actually saying so.
Read “In Memoriam” here.
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I can get behind Tumbstruck…
Philophobia - fear of emotional attachment; fear of being in, or falling in love.
mzchief five5five (via icanread)
i’ve known you for so long and not known you name.
i love you
“I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.”
