Friday, December 9, 2011
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Positive Living Chic: The Pace of Nature
Positive Living Chic: The Pace of Nature: “Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.” Ralph Waldo Emerson We can learn a lot from nature. It works according to its own sc...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
The MSMGF Blog: Carving our own path: the pursuit of LGBT rights i...
The MSMGF Blog: Carving our own path: the pursuit of LGBT rights i...: It has now been nearly 40 years since the gay liberation movement began in the West. We have four decades on which we can look back, study ...
Monday, August 22, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
CHAMBER OF SMILES
When all is chambered in deep silence
You remain the real part of me.
The happy... and the sad part
The simple and the witty
The eloquent and the quiet
The optimistic and the depressed
The hopeful and the realistic
The contemplator and the royal
The dreamer, the writer
The seeker, the leader…
You are my verse and my prose
my teaching and my growth
As I look back on those days
I realize how much I truly miss you
And mostly, how much I will love you
Those days, and hours, and changes…
changed you, changed me
I have grown far more than what I have ever
thought or imagined to be.
The past is gone, forever![]()
That one, the one I got from you.
It is said that if you keep thinking of someone
it is probably they are too, thinking of you.
But You…You cannot think of me.
I am already in there. I have grown there.
I am already in there. I have grown there.
I have nurtured my true-self deep down inside you.
I am engraved in you.
You can only feel me in every second and act
Just like I breathe you.
I feel you. And… I fill you.
I fill your every missing spot with all that I am.
The past is gone, forever
The future is up to you to unfold.
And if someday we do not meet again
I still believe there is a reason for that too
While I carry your thought with a smile…
Friday, July 15, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Saturday, April 30, 2011
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Friday, April 15, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
Life - Untangled
sailing to a shore of crystal sands
Where sands and rose waves blend together
in the infinite warmth of golden sun rays
A perfect velvety feeling...
An aroma of crystals
Where does the ocean lead?
What does a rose rush want?
It wants life, to the fullest
It wants joy in a safe haven
In a world blessed by tomorrow and hope
By today's laughter and your favorite childhood toy
By a deep breath of relief
of yesterday, now, and the horizon...
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Feb. Week in Dubai
Monday, February 7, 2011
IPT Excerpt
Following is an excerpt from my daily meditation journal IPT (Inner Peace Time) at Peace Revolution 2010. I found it coming from the heart. It actually came as a response to the question:
Our life is like a rollercoaster with ups, downs, sharp turns and many unexpected moments. What can you do to better to prepare for your life’s journey?
I can think big, live simple.
I can raise my awareness through daily meditations.
I can say "I can." and it will be.
I can prepare for a better life but not expect one.
I can love deeply everyone and everything that is.
I can write poetry.
I can dance.
I can sing.
I can pray.
I can look at the rose and look again and smell
and smell again
I can find something new everytime...
The journey is an expedition. A person may prepare. Though "Luck favors the prepared." things might flip any time...Just witness, without a word, without a plan, without a say.
Our life is like a rollercoaster with ups, downs, sharp turns and many unexpected moments. What can you do to better to prepare for your life’s journey?
=> Nothing in particular.
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
A Very MONOCLE Experience
Monocle means “a corrective lens”. Being the name of an international magazine in the black and red shelves of Virgin Megastore, the reader starts to sense how Monocle applies corrective measures to the mutated and blurred vision of the world we live in today. After I got confused whether to buy Monocle or Foreign Affairs, I decided after a few minutes of flipping its pages that Monocle was simply the best magazine that ever lay in my hands!
The great attention to details in the execution of Monocle is unbelievably overwhelming and strong! The cover page has smart colors of white, black, and yellow; the title and slogan: MONOCLE A Briefing on Global Affairs, Business, Culture, & Design with its delicate font type and size; the photo of a handsome, left-handed academic or graphic designer; the headlines…the texture suits the colors so well. As you open the first page, ads of Rolex (the GMT-Master II) and Chanel (J-12 Marine), then J. Crew shoes capture you until you reach the next page: Content –February 2011. Dazzling page! There, you’d know what further awaits you inside…a report on the Russian port and organized crime, briefings about the British Queen’s motorcade in Europe to China’s version of Google Earth in Asia, to more briefings about Africa/Middle East and Oceania’s king Tonga. More reports are found about Berlin architect, fashion, flensted mobiles, Stockholm retail, eyewear, working life, and Ad school…and more briefings on media and art market, culture and voiceover artists…After a few airlines and Dunhill ads, you can see the “online Content” page, including the products of the Monocle Shop. I bumped into “this issues debates” The Leader: Let’s look at Plan B. Amazingly, I found the CEO to be among the writers of this debate!
I also read somewhere that the magazine paper used is eco-friendly and it’s from Lebanon! I happily read an interview with Mohamed ElBaradei, former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and how he is still seeking to bring democracy notions to his homeland, Egypt, after he has retired. I could also connect to Hiyaku comic strip that starts out (in the second page actually) by telling about Nada Debs, a prestigious Lebanese furniture designer who lived in Japan and how her upbringing influenced her warm Middle Eastern outlook on design.
As an instructor seeking professionalism in teaching and academia, I was more that glad to read about the Superhero class in education: futurist Ray Kurtzweil and his attempts to teach students about the latest innovations to save the world in Silicon Valley’s Singularity University, which is supported by Google and is based in a Nasa Campus! Going through the Emotions, Imaginative Leap, Hot Lots are a few among many other astonishingly creative titles of articles on music and art.
Then comes pages on designs in China and Germany: just beautiful articles with reflective pictures. From fashion to Breaking the Chains –Stockholm, you reach the laminated smaller pages of The Monocle Shop, showing shirts, bags, notebooks (I think I read somewhere that the latter are made in Lebanon too!), eco-jewels, special subscription offers and rates, passport holders, blankets, and other special items…All designed by Monocle! The Inventory (Objects of Desire section) highlights in interesting hotels, shops, services, and restaurants… in different places in the world. In Beirut, Ginette was the lucky name in the world of furniture retail. Just before the Endpoint “Observation Issue 40” where the Chairperson and CEO talks about the 2011 new Monocle projects, radio studios, and recruitment drives, Jason Rezaian writes about rediscovering Iran with beautiful insights and photos in Expo February 2011, Number 40: Iran Comes Out to Play! The last page: Woolrich, shop online for music instruments, from the inside and the cover page ends with Sean Connery’s ad of Louis Vuitton: this last section: all laminated…all exhilarated!
The LV slogan says it all: There are journeys that turn into legends. That is so true! My journey of finding Monocle’s Issue 40- Volume 4 showed me that this magazine is a true legend. Most importantly, I found a guide to international conferences inside this issue that includes essays on topics like brainstorming intelligent conferences, report on the venue space and room essentials of a conference, catering and uniforms, delegates’ view, high-powered conferences 2011 schedule, and inspiring speakers such as Academic and writer Sarah Thornton and Professor Yutaka Morohoshi.
To Monocle Family, a big thank you for addressing the needs of the global citizen of the ever-new world!
Sunday, January 16, 2011
The Passion Fashion
From a title of a self-help book to the name of a designer boutique… “The Passion Fashion” could also be your next status on Facebook! While some might have a real passion for fashion, they’d buy those new Cavalli shoes or get that recent Apple application installed…Others find fashion in their passion. They explore themselves in everything they do in the ever-lasting contemporary fashion of nature and being.
The Passion Fashion seeks to find your true legend. It is the one trend that has been shaping humanity. All our beliefs, emotional dispositions, experiences, and perceptions unite to make sense when we discover what makes us passionate about life. The discovery is as old as life itself. It is as new as the fresh cries of the last new born baby! It is what makes you seek ways to enjoy your time in the simplest ways and without having to complain. It is what changes your loneliness into treasured moments of reading, contemplation, and prayer. It is what shed light upon the need for quest, without taking the slightest breath fore-granted. At its very beginnings, Life- the mysterious- hired a joker called time to find luck. The joker has ever since been laughing with every wild card played and repeatedly mumbling, “To find luck, you have to spend time doing what comes out of passion.”
Only a few valiant hearts though thrive to live life with all its passion and injuries, for life itself, changes mode and time; but never its fashion. That’s only an illusion. For we know life at its best when we work, act, and live out of passion. My passions through which I found luck at all time are: rainbows of knowledge, rainfalls of music, and raindrops of everything that is.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Sunee: Many Thanks
Thank you for being my coach in the Peace Revolution program. Your motivation is a blessing that I treasure. You help me with my visualizations and center, and after each daily session, I receive positive feedback and important suggestions from you. Today, I am meditating on my own (only because the video on your website is muted). And I imagined myself to be Love. I was giving out hearts and bubbles and waves and light for everyone, and some great big hearts were flying to people far away whom I don’t really know. I was walking my life, and I bumped into loving people that my magnet caught, whom I deserve to have around me. And there, I saw you.
A Big Thank You for all your efforts!
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Kamallure
When I was still sharing my room with my elder brother, it was exciting for me to see him reading before he tucks himself completely into a deep sleep. I used to watch his hunger for knowledge and imitate him in the morning of the day after with books on philosophy and political science that I did not understand back then. But, what mattered is that I tried…I used to think that looking at the alphabets in those “big” books would, someday and in some way, help me know what the words meant. I so believed in it. (I still do.)
In our common bedroom and on the closet door was a black and white picture of the great Kamal Jumblatt. I used to look at it eventually (because it was right in front of my eyes) and wonder why the picture was fundamentally there. When he moved out and after I got my new bedroom, the picture was still there; only larger this time. In fact, it is a picture of humility but one that has its allure. It was captivating! (It still is.)
My Allure of Chanel was my favorite perfume at the time. It had a deep feminine impact yet kept the strong essence (being royalty; or simply Chanel). It allured me for quite a long time, but I couldn’t keep buying it consistently. Today when I spotted it, it was standing out among all the other perfumes in the perfumery. In fact, it was so outstanding that I bought it on the spot.
What does the perfume share with the picture? What dots connect such opposites? An allure, maybe…but each in its own way. In fact, both are royalty; one for the body and the other for the mind and soul. Only now do I understand why both have been there and continued to be… To be continued.
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