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Hey y'all -- I'm making this post on behalf of Sami and his family, who are still suffering in Gaza. You can find their fundraiser here. It’s atrocious that people have to continue to live in such awful conditions, and if we are able to help them I think we should — even if it’s small! If you can, please consider donating or reblogging his fundraiser.

Sami’s family is large and has many young children who deserve a better life. I desperately hope that the Rafah crossing will be open soon and they’ll be able to leave and find a better life — but they need the funds to do so.

A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.

Don’t you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it’s helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.

Ilana is such a fashionista and everyone needs to know it. First episode she said taking pride in her appearance was important and she stuck to that.