Alkharif Sweater

The name of this Sweater means Autumn in Arabic.

For me, Autumn is a season in which we celebrate our existence as human beings and the existence of the world.

After having enjoyed the flowering of Spring and the enjoyment of Summer, Autumn invites us to reflect and prepare to hibernate.

This poem by Walt Whitman “Songs of myself” invites us to celebrate ourselves and all of existence itself.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

And what I assume you shall assume,

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,

I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,

Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same