Tag: abandoned

  • Day13~ August 13th~ Boracay

    ‘Abandoned’, and interesting word. If you like  to anagram words as I often like to do, then you will find this: abandoned = a dead boon. A boon is a blessing or something to be thankful for among other definitions. So when we humans abandon something, do we stop being thankful for it and for…

  • Day 22~ March 22nd~ Egypt

    Places of worship continue to vibrate with the intentions of the people who built them and those who used them to utter their prayers… In the Egyptian desert, near Elephantine Island, is an abandoned coptic monastery that dates back to the 6th century. It is one of the biggest coptic monasteries in the world and…

  • Day 17~ February 17th~ Lebanon

    Do you remember your first best friend? Do you recall what you used to do for fun, what games you played, what made you happy? Do you remember your first day at school, your first fear, your first secret? Do you remember your first kiss, the first time your heart skipped a beat at the…

  • Day one~February 1st~Lebanon

    Welcome to the start of a new journey, a journey through images, words, ponders, musings, stories, and moments. I begin the first month in Lebanon, a tiny country whose heart pulses on the shores of the beautiful Mediterranea Sea, and whose veins throb with history and with tales of passion and of wars, a place…

  • Day Three Hundred Forty One, December 29, 2011

    The morning after a snowstorm, when all is still… Is it the color white? The purity of the snow? The softness of the crystal blanket? What is it that forces us into a humble silence and a deep state of contemplation? Is it the fact that a new canvas is set and all the past…

  • Day Two Hundred Thirty Two, September 11, 2011

    re·bel·lionNoun/riˈbelyən/ 1. An act of violent or open resistance to an established government or ruler. 2. The action or process of resisting authority, control, or convention: “an act of teenage rebellion“. A fascinating phenomenon, most certainly on the rise in our world today, rebellion is a symptom of the young rejecting the control of the…