A wordsmith with a vivid imagination, an eager mind and a burning desire to carve out tales. As I journey with my muse to that land of all possibilities and self discovery, I hope my personal evolution will serve as a beacon of inspiration for anyone who chooses to stop by.
We can also dream with eyes wide open, okay maybe glazed over with a silly goofy smile plastered on.
I am learning to deliberately sit back and stretch my mind the way that I would stretch my muscles and even though this might sound juvenile, it surprises me sometimes, how far I can stretch them.
It tells me that if my mind can conceive it, then I can find ways to accomplish it by giving it my best shot.
We tend to use all the self limiting excuses under the Sun as a limitation to arriving at our desired goals.
Maybe, it’s time we tried to dump the excuses and start dreaming as well as whittling away at it.
Habits transform jealousy into compassion To borrow Sayanti’s words ‘Jealousy is an emotion that restricts you to accept yourself as you are and to accept others as they are. In the prison of jealousy, you will live in an oxygen-less life. Jealousy not only harms you, but also ruins your relationships. Sometimes comparison inspires us. But comparison in a relationship just ruins it.’ A sound article.
The first quest, a last request Melinda is such a refined writer that sometimes, I wonder how she does it. This series just pulls you in and weaves magic.
For The Great Book Of Lists, this weeks theme is a list of people throughout history that I would like to meet *dead or alive* and without missing a beat, I know the people that I would really love to spend some time with right now.
I will concentrate on those who are no longer with us and I will start the list with the good ones.
My dad. If I had a chance to choose a parent once again in my life, I would choose you. You are one of the most beautiful soul that I am opportune to know.
My grandma. She loved me.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – After all, I was named after her and would have loved to meet her.
Princess Diana – I admired her a lot.
Mother Theresa – Her generous and gentle spirit is an example of how a person can make a difference.
David, The King of Israel. After reading my psalms quite a bit, I have pondered often on this great soul.
Clark Gable aka Rhett Butler of Gone with the wind. I had a girl crush on him, even though he was already gone by the time I came.
The EVIL THAT MEN DO will always follow their name long after they’ve left, and these men below were simply vile.
Adolf Hitler
Vlad Dracula
Idi Amin
Joseph Stalin
The rest of the infamous evil gang can be found through this link if you wish to read 25 Most Evil.
My sole wish is to look them in their evil eyes, give them a large piece of my mind and a nice smack on the cheek. They literally got away with murder on so many horrendous degrees!!
On Thursday’s, I share pictures about ‘Echos of my Neighbourhood.
I would like to invite you to participate. The challenge is quite simple.
Every Thursday, share a photo of bits and pieces of wherever you are at any point in time. It could be houses, backgrounds of your neighbourhood, activities and so forth and you can tag it Echos of my Neighbourhood, add my link to your post so that I will get the ping from your post.
Every other Thursday, I will publish a post with the links of all those who participated the previous week.
This is just a fun way of getting to see more of the World around us through your eyes, since we cannot all be at those places, we can at least see them through you.
Iranian Hospital Dubai
Part of the Hospital
Part of the Hospital
Part of the Hospital
I like the gate
One of the waiting areas
Schedule screen
Some hospital staff in the ladies area
Pharmacy waiting area
Ladies waiting area
Cafe
Cafe
The mosque opposite
Gold fish in a bowl on sale
Gold fish on display at cafe
The Dome
Birthday dinner at The Dome
A better part of my last week until this Tuesday was spent between the Iranian Hospital and having a little birthday dinner.
The pictures above are some parts of The Iranian Hospital Dubai. An International hospital affiliated to the Iranian Red Crescent/Red Cross. It’s among the top five relief agencies in the World.
No one likes going to the hospital, not for fun and spending time in a dinghy one would only make it worse.
The Iranian Hospital’s service was very professional, polite, prompt and I found no reason whatsoever to grumble throughout the days they attended to us. I was impressed.
You even have a schedule screen that tells you what’s going on and when you will be attended to. The cafe had hot meals all through and even several bowls of pretty species of goldfish to admire or to buy.
My daughter wanted one, I wouldn’t have minded several goldfish, but we don’t have a brilliant goldfish handling history.
The place runs smoothly at all times *even by 3 a.m. It’s like a well oiled machinery and they made a panicky mothers heart much calmer. Somehow, we managed to find time to hang out a bit at The Dome for dinner and eat lots of birthday cake.
Last Week Echoes gave us some peeks of different neighbourhoods, hop on let’s go see and do show some of yours 🙂
Hot brews of coffee in all sizes and even as blings. Seattle is the place to go for rich, decadent brews. Just drive thru for a look see.
Write them all more echoes of other parts of Dubai from a neighbour. It’s truly an amazing World how we connect online.
Sicily lovely sights and echoes of Sicily. I would like to visit this Italian city some day.
Giggles & Tales Well I never knew this. Fish feet spa where they fish get to feed on the cuticles of your feet. I already feel ticklish at the thought.
This and That with Sarah while she tinkers with her laptop.
Thoughts and entanglements Fabulous and interesting pictures from Brooklyn. I like those spangled underwear 😉
Today’s theme makes me thank Photo 101 for giving me the purpose to share some of the numerous collections of light pictures that I have taken.
My dear Himself has had to learn lessons in patience when we go out, because I will ooh and aah over this and that, pointing and clicking away with contentment.
Dubai is a trail blazer and a light bulb of a city. They’ve got the lights going in so many ramifications especially at those high end stores, that the twinkle of the lights beckons to us like moths and we are attracted.
It’s as if the luminescent of the bulbs whisper to you to step in and part with some money. The trick is to leave your credit cards at home and take pocket change just in case 😉
Imagine how life must have been in the dark ages before electricity Candles were meant only for the wealthy back then and cost a fortune. For some reason this brings a quote to my mind which says that ‘putting off someone’s candle, will not make yours to shine brighter.’
Even an ogre can look like a prince in the hazy gaze of a dim lantern, but just make sure you get a good look at him in the brightness of broad daylight 😉
Thankfully, the days of our live’s which revolves around light of the day and darkness of the night are made sweeter under the glow of a bright bulb.
Gemini I DON’T exaggerate when I say that this is a fabulous and compelling story.
Connections Do you know the breakdown of your ancestry and DNA composition? This is fascinating. I think I am undiluted African, but we never know these things. Maybe I have a British or Irish or Indian or Portuguese ancestor lurking somewhere in the mix 😉
Sometimes, nature forces us to slow down due to certain challenges that it throws our way and we are literally left in the waiting room.
While in the waiting room, it shouldn’t be seen as a drawback, but as an opportunity to decompress, to keep our eyes gazing up at the stars and yet our feet planted firmly in the present.
That would be a good time to have a bird-eye review, regroup and relaunch of that which you are projecting on.
Gemini I DON’T exaggerate when I say that this is a fabulous and compelling story.
Connections Do you know the breakdown of your ancestry and DNA composition? This is fascinating. I think I am undiluted African, but we never know these things. Maybe I have a British or Irish or Indian or Portuguese ancestor lurking somewhere in the mix 😉
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