The Best Lebanese Vegetables

The Best Lebanese Vegetables Dishes

When we were kids we used to pick the main vegetables from our backyard or from our cousins' gardens... we also learnt to choose the best ones, by that I mean the most fresh... but mainly the season's products...
Nowadays no one in our village is planting anymore, and our only source is the markets... we kept our talent by choosing the most good looking and somewhat fresh... but there is no more seasons... we don't know the origin and how these plants were feed, kept alive or made hyperproductive... Chemicals? Sewage? Pesticides? Insecticides? Radiation?
It is absolutely right that many cancers went undiagnosed in the past centuries, but no one can deny the burst of cancers this century...
I'm moving back to my garden... planting and eating... I know that the quantity is not enough, and the atmosphere is indeed polluted, the rain not pure anymore... but I believe that the taste is different... try it and you will see...

The Best Lebanese Fruits

The Best Lebanese Fruits

An Art

Changing colors according to the surrounding environment is an art of living… and killing…

The Colors Of Sunset

The Colors Of Sunset

The sun feels shame to leave... she turns red, and then she falls grey...
Her will is to keep looking on life, on beauty... but the cycle is taking its way…
She knows that everyone has to go away, even a flower and a blue jay…
Everyone is missing her, as in her absence it is impossible to dance or play…
A cold night is winning the thrown, and the darkness’s fear is forcing every being to pray…
Will she come back tomorrow? Will we have together another day?
If I’m still here when you return, please have a longer stay…
If you don’t find me, just keep looking… I may be somewhere, preparing for you a nice couplet to say…

The World's Beauty As Seen By A Bee

The World’s Beauty As Seen By A Bee

Appreciated & featured on the Home & Garden Channel on Webshots.

I can’t stop running behind this attractive beauty...
I don’t know if it is just a mixture of all colors, or a wonderful daily story to tell…
I never could describe all these paints, but I can assure that they are made with the most skilled hands...
I’m not just pleasured by the sights… the smell does though as many other things…
I’m enjoying life... and I feel always worthy by being a famous beauty converter…

Back To School!

After the wonderful celebrations, we are back... surely with a new vision and a power that will never surrender... we are enjoying alot our new life class, and we are inviting who is still wondering or uncertain to join...
We thank everyone who made our day so beautiful, especially our families...
A special thank to the poet Charbel Baini & Leila Magazine for covering our beautiful wedding day with photos, videos and alot of love...
SAMA

Christmas Time...

The nature changes every moment her colors, to look more and more beautiful in the eyes of God!
Will we do such an act?
Will we change our hearts to reach the eternal peace?
Will we design our life with the unlimited love instead of being drown in materialism?!
Will our soul be born again every single day, not just occasionally?
Will we understand that Christmas is not a “season” but a journey?

Autumn’s Signature…

It’s a painting competition… Autumn is being promoted…
Gravity! Wind effects! Weight! Density! Contact surfaces!

Probabilities! Colors! Vision! Imagination!

And God get as always the perfect designer’s award!

Ages...

Sleeping on a tree base makes a mixture of feelings and thoughts, which may be so contradictory…
Feeling the highness and imagining the self lowness…
Being proud and in the same time forced to be humble…
Flying with your eyes while your body is touching the soil…

Looking on such a tree, known to be the hugest in the region, may let us learn many facts…
Once one starts to grow, he never stops growing until the last moment…
While growing we become more and more complicated…
We grow to reach the sun, and we never reach it…
With days, we lose power, and she shines with glory…

Eternity is not the fact of having an enormous trunk, or a one million year of age, but it is a walk to the great God that may start with our first breath, and will never be reached until we love without borders…

When The Rain Kissed My Rose…

What may prefer a rain drop when she comes back to earth?
Hitting a hard surface or landing off on a rose petal?
Melting in the thirsty soil or kissing a hungry heart?

How would a rose like the water coming from the sky?
A merciful or just a donator?
A healer or just a doctor?

In medicine, a topical treatment can be beneficial even more than a systemic one…
In life, cooling a tired heart is surely more efficacious than giving a cup of water…

Treat the cause, and don’t be lost in the appearance of things…

Even tears may dehydrate a human being…

When The Colors & The Light Collide...

When The Colors & The Light Collide

How do you define the colors?
Aren’t they the bleeding of every surface when hit by the light’s swards?
Aren’t they the shining daily beauty that sleeps every night, to wake up on tomorrow’s hands?
Aren’t they a mirror that transforms the light in every single eye into mind’s ecstasy?
Can I simply say that they are the light, as the light by itself is a mixture of colors?

Is everything we see, simply a story of refraction??
Do you want what I believe the colors are?
They are a soundless sex between the light and the materials…

A Poor’s Point Of View...

The shepherd’s Daughter

Many ones have tried to analyze the world’s most devastating crisis… Experts, politicians, journalists… but what about the poor people, which form more than 90% of the earth’s population?
A poor in these days maybe smiling more than the whales of Wall Street and the sharks of the European bourse… he is not investing with his millions of dollars, not because he fears the markets, but because all what he has is 10 dollars (and even surely less) to live during the day with his family!
He is not going to lose, because he has nothing…
It is not a big difference to him if the Euro-Dollar exchange is going up or down… also he knows very well how to starve many days, and just live on the bread and some olives…
What a huge difference!
Some people are crying now for losing some millions of dollars, just some… and they still have too much… and others cried there life more than enough, until they have no more tears…
The entire actual crisis is about pushing every government to pay them back from our money; because they really need help, and it is impossible to leave they go down… the governments have to defend the world’s money system!
Yes! They will pay them from taxes!
Taxes system, which is made to take from everyone, the very rich and the very poor, to give to the entire nation, will be used to help the rich!!
We didn’t ever see the governments that exited to help the poor ones???
Can we ask why? Or our question is just as important as “how much we have”?
What a real joke?
What is this system? How can it be that good, and he leaves the world’s treasures in the hands of less than 5% of the earth’s population?
Where were they when every poor family was starving? I’m sure they were eating their caviar and smoking their pipes, all from the interest rates everyone is paying them because he does not have enough cash…

Yes! They never thought about how I do feel, but I’m not happy because they are passing in this situation, and I’m not surely asking for revenge… I will not hide that I have a strange feeling in my heart…
They will be okay, I know it… they will adapt just like every human being…
Yet, I’m always wondering about the difference between someone who has one million dollars and another who has one billion! Will they drive two cars in the same time? Will they wear two jackets at the same moment? Will they watch two televisions in the same second?
My life is surely hard, but I live in honor, and I’m not that stressed about the bourses… I just keep walking and smiling…

The Night's Light

How would be our life if the darkness is the only kingdom?
What would be our dreams if we can’t see the light of tomorrow?
How may look a sky just with the far stars?
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Millions of years have passed and you are still a big secret…
Another unanswered “why”!
You may not be as cold as they said… not silent as you appear…
As when we move, you walk with us…
When we cry, you cool our hearts…
When we depress, you take our look up…
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Why do we feel so close to you?
Is it because you are the only one who stays awake, while everyone is comatose in his bed?
Is it because you can see our tears, while no one can see our dark side?
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You are not God…
We are not too…
But why are you there? Why are we here?
You, you keep the “black” alive until tomorrow…
And we, we don’t stop wondering!

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The Tears Of Hope

The sadness waves are not stopping hitting the shores…
The destructive wind of anger is yet stifling every form of life…
This endless storm does not want to move away…

Every burnt heart is being smashed roughly each day…
Everyone that resisted has to die more than one million times…
Every scene must be changed by force, with no single way to peace…

Hard seconds maybe felt as days, and months as years…
But there is no eternal darkness… There is no endless sadness…
Do not keep inside you anything but love…
Its seeds (love) will make every heart rise again… and know that the tears of pain are and will be always the ones of hope…

Port Of The Sun

While standing on the border, I couldn’t stop looking in the surrounding darkness…
There is nothing as powerful as you…
Your beams fill the heart, while the cold light can barely heat itself…
I’m staying here since you left the port and disappeared in the horizon…
I miss the colors… I miss the life…
Tomorrow will never be like today…
I will go with you in the eternal journey…
I will hold you tight even if I will be burnt…

Autumn In Lebanon

Autumn Collection , Lebanon ( Featured 22/12/2003 )

The Oldest Alive Monuments On Earth

Cedars Of The God , Becharri , North Lebanon

Continue voting for the Cedars of Lebanon, our level is falling so fast (from the 4th level to 45!!!!) in the largest http://www.new7wonders.com/nature/en/vote_on_nominees/world wide vote.
Jeita Grotto fell to the level twenty five world wide.
The vote will continue until the end of December 2008.

A Day's Deep Breath!

Peace is only achievable when the sky reflects herself on earth.

Looking at this pool may encourage you to just imagine... but also to plunge and mix yourself with this eternal beauty...

Hope!

The light will always be back...
Don’t be afraid…
The clouds are fake, and a blow will remove them away…
Even in the darkest moments of life, hope must not be lost...
Trust me, You will see the light again…
In a way or in the other we must continue… just like everything...

Difficulties are like the clouds, they shut off our sight and our hearts…
But as the rain is the wealth of earth, lessons are the teacher of humanity…

In The Memory Of Rex

In The Memory Of Rex

God & feelings…

Every story is not bigger than the fact of “up & down”… and all things in life happen as they are mixed by this non-stop machine…
As it is worthless to say: “I live in hell” or “I live in heaven”… because in every single moment we are living in both of them… lets talk mechanics… Imagine the escalator system… the same cord moves in two different ways at every moment, while taking it up or down…
All what I wrote is not true in the absolute value… why?!
Because we are not alone… and reaching the equilibrium is never an achievement for us, but to God himself, because he is the only one who can make us “feel” differently our feelings…
There is no other way… If we are so down, we will be up soon… if we are up, we have not to forget that we may be down again… remembering and living God always, during the beautiful as in the bad moments, is what we must do…

Be thankful by sharing with him your laugh when you are happy, and when you feel bad don’t be like the one who said: “I don’t want to go to the doctor because I’m so sick”…