Category: life
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Home Again: Embracing the Unknown
Coming back to Düsseldorf feels like taking a long, slow breath after an exhilarating journey. The familiar chill of February mornings, crisp air that bites at the skin, and the steady rhythm of the city are grounding me back to the present. Though it contrasts sharply with the golden sands and warmth of my recent…
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Transcending Worries: Embracing the Eternal in Art
Beneath the intricate lattice of shadows in this photograph lies for me a poignant metaphor for the human experience. The web-like structure, with its fractured patterns, reflects the endless maze of worries and problems we weave around ourselves. These concerns, which we so often mistake for the reality of life, are nothing but illusions—impermanent and…
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Morning Coffee Talk~43/365
Good Morning, Today my thoughts wander around the subject of intactness. What does it mean to be intact? How vulnerable do we allow ourselves to be with the onset of change? How does one become intact? Is it a permanent state or something we need to keep working towards in our personal development? All these…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 16/365
Good Morning, Time and time again, I dwell on the concept of ‘time’. It’s time for ‘time’ one more time, and how many times are enough times.Well just maybe one more time. Time passes slow when things are difficult, fast when they are joyful, time heals our wounds and time can be endless when we…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 12/365
Good Morning, This post today is about a life changing moment, one of those that we have at a certain stage of our lives and they end up lodging themselves in our personal history, refusing to fade into the dusty halls of our memories, and maybe just maybe they were more significant than we can…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 11/365
Good Morning, When you are like me and you love exploring this planet and learning about its inhabitants, then some places haunt you for years after you visit them. One of these places is Varanasi in India. You probably have heard of Varanasi, its floods of pilgrims, swamis, holy men and women, the river Ganga…
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The power of choice~
The next step we take, the next word we say, the next thought we harbor, the next bite we eat, these are the small choices we make but how small are they really? It is all connected, every road we take leads to the highway of our destiny, or not. In this maze we call…
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The gift that keeps on giving~
When you have your first child you become privy to the most well guarded secret: you have just signed on for the most important and permanent job of your life. It looks so easy. Everyone does it. Our parents did it. Our friends and neighbors seem to do it. And then your child arrives! I…
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In distant dreams~
I was going through my archives of hundreds of thousands of photographs as one often does, when I came across this image of my daughter when she was 4 years old running through the cedars of Lebanon and it made me catch my breath. She is now 13, and time has tricked us all again.…