A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun. -Paul Valery

Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive. -Abraham Joshua Heschel

Tamie Parker Song

Tamie Parker Song is an essayist and improviser who grew up between Jerusalem, Alaska, and the American Midwest. She specializes in disrupting and grappling with stable systems. She loves walking very much. Tamie has an MFA from the University of Southern Maine, an MSW from the Silberman School of Social Work in New York City, and is a psychotherapist in Virginia and DC. She has been a MacDowell fellow, an Island Institute (in Sitka, Alaska) fellow, and her writing has been published in New Lines Magazine, Terrain.org, New Ohio Review, The Selkie Zine, Brink Literary Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the co-director of a web of human relationships (sometimes known as mutual aid) that tries to keep people alive who are being treated as sub-human. That web of human relationships is called Impossible Light.

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For the last year, I have been working to get people out of Gaza, and help people inside of Gaza. This video is of a little girl, Hala, selling things on the street to help her family ~ and as you will see in the video, a dear friend who is trapped in Gaza gave her money to help her family. That money came from money given to me, that I gave to my dear friend Allaa, who gave it to his best friend from high school, Mohammed, who is the person who made this video and gave Hala the money.

I’ve made a separate page here on my website about all of the work I’ve been doing in Gaza, and the ways you can help and give.

https://www.tamieparkersong.com/brothers-and-sisters-of-gaza