wellbeing
25 Small But Amazing Things
If you are a cynic and live in a permanent state of complaining, this post is not for you. Or may be it is …. Silence of early, misty dawn Earthy smell of rain Tiny arms of a child wrapped around the neck Unexpected greeting from a complete stranger An old song triggering a happy [...]
Surrender
A good friend once shared her recipe for her mouth-watering apple pie. After going through the list of ingredients and how to combine them to create this yummy masterpiece, she disclosed the secret to making it extraordinary. She said the secret was surrender to the experience. She said clearing out an afternoon and devoting several [...]
Who gets to write the script?
I’m not much of a TV person, but there are certain series I’m addicted to. Friends. Grey’s Anatomy / Private Practice. 24. Lost (till they completely lost the plot). House. Comedy Central anything. Watching the final episode of Grey’s Anatomy, I wondered yet again – do the actors really know what’s going to happen, or [...]
Do you live like you eat?
It occurred to me the other day that the way in which consume food could be a compelling metaphor for the way we live. There are those of us who fill up so much on the appetizer that we tend to leave most of the main course untouched. It’s a bit like when we get [...]
The need to be right
It was only recently that I came across the Harry Truman quote “”It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” I must admit that I had a little self-conscious, nervous giggle to myself, uncomfortable recognition creeping through my self-righteous, I’m a mom-and-therefore-know-everything role. It occurred to me [...]
Connected Communities
This past month has been awash with several events that I can only really describe as the triumph of communities over the busy-ness of life. It started with Emiratweet, the virtual online community launched late last year. Its founder Heba Al Samt was featured on Dubai One as one of the young achievers being interviewed [...]
Stay Close
Last weekend, instead of couple date night, we had family date night. It wasn’t planned. In fact, it was almost a knee-jerk reaction – and a lovely one at that – to our tight foursome having been apart for a whole seven days. We didn’t do anything special. We had dinner al fresco, complete with [...]
Are we here yet?
“So if you could be anything you wanted, anything at all, what would you be? What is your dream?”, I said. My son and I have had this and similar conversations countless times. It’s a bit of a game, and often ends up in giggly tickling sessions accompanied by grand proclamations of becoming a dragon [...]
The Fear Factor
Nobody likes to admit that any of their actions are driven by fear. After all, that’s considered cowardly, or at least it is in my home culture of African pride. In fact, that could well be why after 20-some years we still don’t have a stable government in the Horn of Africa – but I [...]
The 25th hour
We all have exactly the same 24 hours in a day. Regardless of age, creed, colour, race, occupation, gender and current state of mind, we still all get exactly 24 hours in a day (ok, plus a few seconds, but that’s not the point.) I’ve heard it said (or did I read it?) that time [...]