Tag: sand
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Finding Everything in the Desert’s Emptiness
“Why go to the desert? There’s nothing there,” people often say. Today, as we drove for nearly six hours along a road framed by endless sand and an infinite sky, I reflected on those words. The sun blazed overhead, and the landscape seemed sparse, stripped of the usual markers of life. But as I stepped…
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Finding Solace by the Sea: My Emirates Reflection
This is my fifth visit to the Emirates, and every time I leave, I carry with me a lingering thought: something feels incomplete. For years, I’ve felt the subtle call of the Persian Gulf, its turquoise waters whispering to me, yet I never made the time to step into its waters. It’s strange how life…
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Lessons from the Desert: A Journey into Timelessness
Spending this month in the UAE, I am surrounded by the vast and mysterious expanse of desert. It is a landscape that invites reflection and awe. I remember vividly the first time my daughter visited this region at the age of seven. As she stepped onto the golden dunes, she was struck silent, her small…
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Daily Coffee Talk~75/364
There must have been a time when humans were born on this planet with a clarity of purpose and a constant awareness of purpose for this journey we find ourselves on. It feels that something has occurred to cause a derailment of the human story, sometime, somehow, we took a wrong turn and we find…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 44/365
Good Morning, Have you ever felt the need to back things off when so much tries to claim your time, attention and energy? That is the time to use the power of ‘NO’. So many of us find it very difficult to say no, maybe in fear of upsetting someone, the worry of not being…
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Morning Coffee Talk~ 39/365
Good Morning, We are in the desert today in Liwa, close to the border of the emirates and Saudi Arabia, the empty quarter (الربع الخالي) and very close to the Tropic of Cancer. The sand get more and more red as you drive towards Liwa due to its concentration of copper and the world gets…
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Chasing Time~
It’s a funny thing, time. I remember as a child not minding time at all; being and living in the moment; existing in a plane where time had no say in my business. Then slowly things begin to change. Time would no longer allow itself to be ignored. It wants to assert its managerial role…
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Day 30~ August 30th~ Boracay
Do we live our lives in a way that our footsteps will be worth following?
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Day 23~ August 23rd~ Boracay
My 8 year old daughter is fascinated by supernatural phenomena and is constantly asking about way a person can become a wizard. I have found that the best way to answer her constant questioning is by turning her to the best teacher of all, nature. I have put her to the task of collecting examples…