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$\"\"$ <\/a>This story, sent to me by a parishioner, is everywhere. That\u2019s a good thing. Enjoy!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal<\/em><\/strong>
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by Naomi Shihab Nye<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter learning my flight was detained 4 hours, I heard the announcement: If anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic, please come to the gate immediately. <\/p>\n

Well \u2014 one pauses these days. Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there.<\/p>\n

An older woman in full traditional Palestinian dress, just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing loudly. Help, said the flight service person. Talk to her. What is her problem? We told her the flight was going to be four hours late and she did this.<\/p>\n

I put my arm around her and spoke to her haltingly. Shu dow-a, shu-biduck habibti, stani stani schway, min fadlick, sho bit se-wee? The minute she heard any words she knew \u2014 however poorly used \u2014 she stopped crying. She thought our flight had been cancelled entirely. She needed to be in El Paso for some major medical treatment the following day. I said no, no, we\u2019re fine, you\u2019ll get there, just late, who is picking you up? Let\u2019s call him and tell him. We called her son and I spoke with him in English.<\/p>\n

I told him I would stay with his mother till we got on the plane and would ride next to her \u2014 Southwest.<\/p>\n

She talked to him. Then we called her other sons just for the fun of it.<\/p>\n

Then we called my dad and he and she spoke for a while in Arabic and found out of course they had ten shared friends. Then I thought just for the heck of it why not call some Palestinian poets I know and let them chat with her. This all took up about 2 hours. She was laughing a lot by then. Telling about her life. Answering questions.<\/p>\n

She had pulled a sack of homemade mamool cookies \u2014 little powdered sugar crumbly mounds stuffed with dates and nuts \u2014 out of her bag \u2014 and was offering them to all the women at the gate. To my amazement, not a single woman declined one. It was like a sacrament. The traveler from Argentina, the traveler from California, the lovely woman from Laredo \u2014 we were all covered with the same powdered sugar. And smiling. There are no better cookies.<\/p>\n

And then the airline broke out the free beverages from huge coolers \u2014 non-alcoholic \u2014 and the two little girls for our flight, one African-American, one Mexican-American \u2014 ran around serving us all apple juice and lemonade and they were covered with powdered sugar, too.<\/p>\n

And I noticed my new best friend \u2014 by now we were holding hands \u2014 had a potted plant poking out of her bag, some medicinal thing, with green furry leaves. Such an old country traveling tradition. Always carry a plant. Always stay rooted to somewhere.<\/p>\n

And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and thought, this is the world I want to live in. The shared world. Not a single person in this gate \u2014 once the crying of confusion stopped \u2014 has seemed apprehensive about any other person. They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those other women, too. This can still happen, anywhere.<\/p>\n

Not everything is lost.<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/a>Naomi Shihab Nye<\/strong> was born on March 12, 1952, in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Palestinian father and an American mother. During her high school years, she lived in Ramallah in Jordan, the Old City in Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas, where she later received her B.A. in English and world religions from Trinity University.<\/em><\/p>\n

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