I am the only daughter in a family of eleven. My parents grew up on village farms in Yemen, had no formal education, and embodied the praxis of egalitarianism and hospitality of the tribes and the mysticism of Sufi scholars.—⁦ @ashauter⁩ http://medanthroquarterly.org/2020/05/22/pedagogies-of-the-soul-an-anthropologist-in-isolation-and-the-cut/

The fourteenth-century historian Ibn Khaldun (2015) wrote that one response to interruptions (or cuts, if you will) is to turn to pedagogy, to allow for a form of thinking and writing demanded by another world.

IbnKhaldun, who was writing at the time a plague, I am reminded that fitna&ibtila are cyclical. Every community, in every time, is afflicted w a trial of its own & usually the decline of an empire stems from its abandoning the cultivation of the sciences &the production of crafts