Happy Valentine’s Day, Habibi!

We are still settling into our new place, mumbling Arabic in hopes someone understands, getting slapped in the face by small children in special ed centers, and we *finally* got internet. We promise to catch up on pictures and info soon, but we couldn’t resist posting a Valentine’s playlist. While we usually mail out a mixtape (I know it’s a CD but I like to say mixtape anyway) to our family and bff’s, we obviously will not be able to do that this year-- or next year, since we are serving in Jordan. But we continue to love the hell outta ya, so listen up!

in the caverns of tomorrow with just our flashlights and our love we must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge take my hand and hold it as you would a flower brother, you speak to me of passion you said never to settle for nothing less lift up your hearts and sing me a song that was a hit before your mother was born don't you know it's gonna be all right i will say a prayer, just while you are sitting there i will wrap my arms around you i know it will be fine broken glass broken hearts...we won't destroy you no we will not destroy you every spark of friendship and love will die without a home a gathering of angels appeared above my head they sang to me this song of hope and this is what they said you know you can always change your mind maybe I will too in time. once we understand no one understands at all i've heard newborn babies wailing like a mourning dove and old men with broken teeth stranded without love out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train الطافيلة طافيلي (tafila tafilii) we laugh until we think we’ll die, barefoot on a summer night nothin’ new is sweeter than with you...geez, you’re something to see what does this mean? it's startin to even look like a triple rainbow ya habibi ma sha’allah i know that love will come i know that love will come turn it all around i understood for once in my life high on a hill, it calls to me

at the bottom of everything -bright eyes

turquoise -donovan

misguided angel -cowboy junkies

your mother should know -the beatles

revolution 1 -the beatles

wrapped up in books -belle and sebastian

pa-pa-power -dead man’s bones

intervention -arcade fire

come sail away -ps 22 chorus

black flowers -yo la tengo

shelter from the storm -bob dylan

peace train -cat stevens/yusuf islam

tafila -omar al-abdallat

home -edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros

double rainbow song! -shoyomoho

ya habibi yalla -nancy ajram

soldier of love -sade

she smiled sweetly -rolling stones

i left my heart in san francisco -tony bennett