Category: germany
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Spiraling up~
Today brought a lesson that I keep relearning. I was having a productive, focused day, and then a thought crossed my mind. It was small, triggered by a minor event, but it was just enough to start a subtle spiral downward. I caught myself slipping into that familiar place of worry and anxiety—the one that…
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Rainy Days and the Texture of Feeling~
There was something in the air today, a strange kind of stillness. It rained in Düsseldorf after many days of sunshine— but not the kind of rain that chills the bones. It was warm. Soft. A spring drizzle. And still, it felt unusual to me. Having grown up in Lebanon, where warm weather always meant…
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A Collective Longing ~
There are days when I walk the streets and see crowds of people, each moving with purpose, each immersed in the rhythm of their individual lives. From the outside, it all seems ordinary—people going about their days, burdened with tasks, chasing goals, entangled in their own stories. But then, there’s something deeper I sense, something…
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Daily Walks, Endless Discoveries
Every day, I walk. One hour, sometimes a little more. Always through the same general path, often circling back to familiar streets, buildings, and turns I’ve memorized without meaning to. One of those daily constants is a building by Frank Gehry—silver, curving, fluid—rising unexpectedly out of the landscape like a thought you didn’t know you…
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The Next Step: Walking into the Unknown
We live our lives stepping forward and upward into the unknown, never quite sure what lies ahead. Every morning, we wake up, place our feet on the ground, and move forward, often without questioning the invisible force that propels us—hope. Without hope, how would we even find the courage to take the next step? It’s…
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The Jungle of Humanity
I find my soul in the jungle of humanity. When I look back at my life, most of it has been inside cities, and that has always been a choice. I grew up in a small village, surrounded by nature, yet I never felt that deep connection to the human family as I do in…
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The Drive to Create
Today I was watching a flock of geese in the sky and was stopped by the beauty of how they just ‘are’. They simply do what they were meant to do, as does everything else in nature. But while animals and plants follow their natural course, we humans are different. We are driven—sometimes even haunted—by…
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The Eye of the Storm
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There is a palpable sense that we are standing at the edge of something vast, or perhaps already in the middle of it. A shift, a breaking down, an unraveling that so many feel yet struggle to define. Conversations echo this sentiment everywhere—the world is showing its fractures, and the unknown looms like a shadow,…
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Embracing the Now: Finding Peace in Presence
Today, I was so busy that I forgot about time, and that was a good day. Time only exists when I stop to think about it, when my mind drifts to places it has not yet arrived. But if I don’t look for it, if I am completely immersed in the flow of doing, time…
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The Haunting Pull of Spirals
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There is something deeply hypnotic about the spiral. It is a shape that exists everywhere, from the tiniest seashell to the vast expanse of galaxies. The Fibonacci sequence, that golden ratio of nature’s design, reveals itself in the way sunflowers arrange their seeds, in the unfurling of fern fronds, in the winding embrace of a…