Monday, December 22, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
it's blowing in the wind
i want to lay beside you
like all that we had was never gone
i want to sit beside you without feeling that void between us
i want to think of you like the person i love, not the one i've left...
how could there be so much there and yet discrepancies scattered
could you care for me, not only having to be cared for?
you're my love but never could we be together again
Friday, December 5, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
she sang
it was that which i heard that moved me. the sounds of her singing voice in our post colonial Beirut apartment. layed out by a seemingly sometimes neurotic Huda Fawaz turned Haddad
we sat listening to a mono recording from 1971 as she seemingly happy to hear herself continued dubbing herself live.
we witness
it was that which i heard that moved me
the sounds of her stories recounting history of Jedo Amin during world war one.
his letters attempting to interpret the state of war through the eyes ears and all other senses of a doctor...she not yet born
teta you are a charm
a pretty faced pretty voiced shaking old wrinkly lady that you've become
parkinson's disease moves you
and i am moved by you
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Pablo Neruda
We Have Lost Even
We have lost even this twilight.No one saw us this evening hand in hand while the blue night dropped on the world.
I have seen from my windowthe fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sunburned like a coin between my hands.
I remembered you with my soul clenched in that sadness of mine that you know.
Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what?Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?
The book fell that is always turned to at twilight and my cape rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.
Always, always you recede through the evenings towards where the twilight goes erasing statues.
We have lost even this twilight.No one saw us this evening hand in hand while the blue night dropped on the world.
I have seen from my windowthe fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sunburned like a coin between my hands.
I remembered you with my soul clenched in that sadness of mine that you know.
Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what?Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?
The book fell that is always turned to at twilight and my cape rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.
Always, always you recede through the evenings towards where the twilight goes erasing statues.
HAITI needs our help!!!
Dear friend,
Within the last few weeks, Haiti has been devastated by a string of hurricanes - Gustav, Hanna and, most recently, Ike. Many have been left homeless. Strong rain has pounded villages, has knocked down trees, and destroyed whatever little crops have been planted. The flooding by hurricanes has caused hundreds of deaths, loss of crops, homes, micro-enterprises and animals. Families are suffering from massive food shortages and lack of clean drinking water. Haiti being a smaller island country in the Caribbean has also received less international attention compa red to other hurricane-affected areas.
We earnestly appeal to you to donate generously towards providing hurricane relief to Haiti. We have a goal to raise $400,000. Your contributions will be directly used to pay for:
1. Barrels of clean drinking water
2. Non-perishable food items
3. Basic over-the-counter medical supplies (bandages, aspirin, etc)
4. Transportation of goods to and within Haiti
The relief work will be conduct by IAHV (International Association of Human Values) and The Friends of Petite Anse Inc. IAHV has been working in Haiti to train youth leaders in a reforestation project. Please visit:
http://www.iahv.org to contribute.
Thank you for your generosity.
The Haiti Relief Team
Uma Viswanathan (umav@artofliving.org)
Gerthy Lahens (gerthyl@MIT.EDU)
Within the last few weeks, Haiti has been devastated by a string of hurricanes - Gustav, Hanna and, most recently, Ike. Many have been left homeless. Strong rain has pounded villages, has knocked down trees, and destroyed whatever little crops have been planted. The flooding by hurricanes has caused hundreds of deaths, loss of crops, homes, micro-enterprises and animals. Families are suffering from massive food shortages and lack of clean drinking water. Haiti being a smaller island country in the Caribbean has also received less international attention compa red to other hurricane-affected areas.
We earnestly appeal to you to donate generously towards providing hurricane relief to Haiti. We have a goal to raise $400,000. Your contributions will be directly used to pay for:
1. Barrels of clean drinking water
2. Non-perishable food items
3. Basic over-the-counter medical supplies (bandages, aspirin, etc)
4. Transportation of goods to and within Haiti
The relief work will be conduct by IAHV (International Association of Human Values) and The Friends of Petite Anse Inc. IAHV has been working in Haiti to train youth leaders in a reforestation project. Please visit:
http://www.iahv.org to contribute.
Thank you for your generosity.
The Haiti Relief Team
Uma Viswanathan (umav@artofliving.org)
Gerthy Lahens (gerthyl@MIT.EDU)
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