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  • Day 22~ March 22nd~ Egypt

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    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…

  • Day14~ March 14th~ Egypt

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    I went to Egypt looking for adventure. I got far more than what I bargained for… A group of 25 something friends from all around the globe, all eager to find the truth, we headed into the desert on a moonless night to gaze at the stars and dwell on the mysteries of Egypt. It…

  • Day 21~ February 21st~ Lebanon

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    At about age 5 or 6, my sister and I used to love playing house games with the neighborhood children in our village. We had an unfinished floor in our home that was still cement walls and bricks and we created our own pretend little world there. We had a basket tied to a rope…

  • Day 20~ February 20th~ Lebanon

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    In a geographically small country like Lebanon, people of different religions live side by side. It is so difficult to explain how religions, tradition, cultural norms, rules, and social order organize themselves there. Within each religion are sects, groups, different belief systems, different dress codes and different tolerances. Having been born to a christian family,…

  • Day 10~ February 10~ Lebanon

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    “Kadisha”, the name given to this valley and to the river that runs in its belly. Kadisha is ancient Aramaic for ‘holy’. This gorge has been used for burials and shelter as far back as the Paleolithic time. In its walls are thousands of caves that house monasteries, churches, thousands of meters high up in…

  • Day Two Hundred Fifty Eight, October 7, 2011

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    With history lives mystery, the unknown, the unexplained, the unanswered questions, the missing pieces of the puzzle, and it is fascinating to an inquisitive mind and to a fertile imagination. We are drawn magnetically to ancient sites, even as small children, we dream about the builders of the pyramids and picture them walking sideways as…