World Smile Day is held on the first Friday of October every year. Ever since the ’70s, at least as far as I remember, the smiley symbol has been associated with a smile. Just today I was look at some pictures that a colleague was showing me of a slum…
It Felt Love How Did the rose Ever open its heart And give to this world All its Beauty? It felt the encouragement of light Against its Being, Otherwise, We all remain Too Frightened. -Hafiz After a car bomb ripped through his Baghdad neigbourhood, Karim Wasfi, the conductor of the…
What if we scatter? Possessions. Awards. Photographs. Experiences. Stories. Books. Money……. We gather them. Hoard them even. “These are what define me,” I might say. “Without them there can be no ‘me’ or ‘you'”, you add. So on we go gathering, until there’s no space left. We either learn to…