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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

The Coexistence according to them: Masters and Slaves — Nadia Issam Harhash

The scenes of destruction from Gaza, reflect the ugly face of occupation. The Hate, despotism, cruelty, inhumanity.  There is no equality in injustice, repression, evilness. I cannot but ask myself, what else do these people want from us?  One would say, but you provoked.  Let’s start from the beginning; the attempts to regulate Al Aqsa…

The Coexistence according to them: Masters and Slaves — Nadia Issam Harhash

♫ Back In My Arms Again ♫

Filosofa's Word

It’s been a while, I think, since I played any Supremes’ songs and tonight I was in the mood for their upbeat style, so I went in search of (and found) one that I haven’t played here before!

This was The Supremes’ fifth consecutive hit in the US.  It was, as most of The Supremes’ music was, written by the songwriting team of Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland, known collectively as Holland-Dozier-Holland.  I did not know this, but The Supremes were the most commercially successful of Motown’s acts and the most successful American vocal group, with 12 number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, all but one written by Holland-Dozier-Holland.

This was released in 1965 at a time when the friendship between the three — Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard — was becoming strained, as Mary and Florence became frustrated that Diana Ross was…

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Showcasing my Digital Artwork

Impressive use of Powerpoint for drawing people!

The Wheelchair Teen

Hey, everyone! It’s good to be back! I’ve been doing quite a bit of graphic designing lately since I’m still working on creating my own comic book about a team of disabled superheroes and it requires a lot of digital illustration. You guys always see my writing style showcased on my blog, but I rarely share my artwork here except for the ones I create specifically for this platform like the blog headers and the logo. So, I thought it would be cool to have a post where I show you some of my digital artwork since not many people tend to see them other than my family.

This is a self-portrait I created called Afro Poetry. The afro is full of different accounts I wrote about: my experience wearing my hair in its natural afro form for the first time, cultural identity, and the way people perceive me (I…

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Cum vă place

Google translation: Ascoli Piceno, 2016 Sunday afternoon in a theater setting. Smiling people, smell of fresh dough, olives, cookies, coffee, acacia flowers, rain, spring.

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Ascoli Piceno, 2016

Dumincă după-masă într-un decor ca de teatru. Oameni zâmbitori, miros de aluaturi proaspete, măsline, fursecuri, cafea, flori de salcâm, ploaie, primăvară.

Ca orice oraș italian de talie mică, fotogenic și pictural, AP mă primește direct într-o aglomerație șarmantă de edificii medievale și renascentiste bine conservate, construite de romani la începuturile istoriei. Sufletul orașului a rămas neatins de secole. Mondializarea n-a pătruns încă.

Am petrecut aici doar o seară și o dimineață, insuficient pentru câte ai de văzut, de gustat, de savurat.

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Am reușit să pătrund în câteva clădiri istorice, printre care un palat din secolul 15 transformat în hotel. 

Armonia s-a menținut în decorul citadin în virtutea faptului că istoria orașului nu a cunoscut conflicte majore. Doar în 1185 l-au avut de înfruntat pe Federico II, ca mulți alții.

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Dimpotrivă, în secolele trecute, principala activitate din urbe era creația artistică, spontană sau comandată de aristocrație.

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Astăzi, starea…

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Alphabet soup for the soul – “T”

Words from Walden

T is for Transformation

Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.

– Sadhguru-

An tiny egg turns into larva which then turns into a caterpillar, before finally, transforming into a beautiful butterfly, so too a human being can transform from ugly to beautiful.

The butterfly is a perfect metaphor for the ego. We can transform our ego from the ugly caterpillar that is leeching onto its existence, scared by what it see’s and continuously squirming to and fro in an effort to get ahead, yet barley making any progress.

We can transform that slow repetitive, predictable and agonizing route into a multi-dimensional and multi-directional, stunningly majestic butterfly.

Once the metamorphosis is completed in the fourth stage, abutterfly breaks out of the chrysalis and upon its own strength it emerges to explore new opportunities.

Opportunities that were previously…

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