House of Curiosity...

5:45 AM
I slept most of the time during the flight… last thing I remembered was the plane taking off… I forgt  how afraid of flying I am… especially at taking off and landing… the rapid change in pressure terrifies me….
Although Charles de Gaulle is one of the biggest airports in the world (and worst) [...]

Last few days, random people from different phases of my life have been calling me to go and clean their streets! So far, my first reaction was that of surprise and the second one is of delight…I will get back to the delight part, in a bit…
 
Nope, I still have not switched my career [...]

One of  the project’s associates, who had been dangerously uncooperative had miraculously become dangerously cooperative… he dropped in to pay us an unseasonable visit. I was extremely busy preparing for an event…
 When he realized , he was not going to get the required social pleasantries form me, he rose to leave…  one of the [...]

Words fail to describe my feelings… so I won’t say anything…
 
This is one of my favorite poems.. Marcel Khalifeh turned it into a song… It is so  harsh yet so tender… 
 

تصبحون على وطن
عندما يذهب الشهداء الى النوم أصحو
وأحرسهم من هواة الرِّثاء

 
أقول لهم :
تُصبحون على وطن،
من سحابٍ ومن شجرٍ،
من سراب وماء

أهنئُهُم بالسلامةِ من حادثِ المُستحيل
ومن قيمة [...]

No, this is not the wailing of a delirious woman… in fact, this was a perfectly calm conversation taking place at a flawlessly respectable place in Amman, while Diala  and I were staring at the hills of Ashrafiah shimmering in the velvety sunset.
 
I have been begging Diala (an assumed name) to go out for [...]