Tag: sand
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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…
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Day 22~ August 22nd~ Boracay
All we need is to stand on a seashore watching a storm brew over the ocean to realize that when it comes to the distribution of force, nature has the upper hand. We could be shaken, blown away, flooded, drowned, or dehydrated at any moment with minimal effort on the planet’s part. And I do…
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Day 17~ August 17th~ Boracay
If you had to fly almost all day to reach your holiday destination, then drive in a bus for more than 2 hours, followed by a rough ferry ride and finally climb in a rickshaw to reach your hotel, what would be the first thing you think of doing upon arrival? Normally adults would want…
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Day 10~ August 10th~ Boracay
It is so curious how we sometimes obsess about making things straight when in fact almost everything is curvy on this feminine planet. Even a straight line curves to make a full circle if its ends were to meet. My apologies to readers and photographers who love to see a perfectly straight horizon, but the…