“Hussein, there’s only one word you need to know.

“Hussein, there’s only one word you need to know.

If you can practice this word despite everything, you will realize your full potential.

That word is simple, but it’s incredibly difficult.

The challenges you’ll face will make its meaning blossom, just like a rose.

That word is try.

Promise me, Hussein, that you will always try.”

-Dad

Here’s my old man painting in the middle of a desert Refugee camp in 1992. Trying to use his abilities to leverage us a way out of the middle of what I know as Hell.