“What we remember from our past contains the clues to our present and future.”. Maureen Murdock, in her excellent book Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory. I read this sentence, and I paused. Maureen’s remark resonated profoundly and represented a new doorway to my eternal quest to better understand who I am. I always wondered […]
reconstructing identity
Femme Fatal or an Angel: Which woman would you choose?
Do you remember the movie “Gone with the wind”? I watched it a long time ago with my parents; it captivated me back then. With time, I forgot most of the details, but the resilience of Scarlet, the heroine, stayed with me. I still remind myself when things get rough “that tomorrow is another day.” […]
Corona, a Collective Journey Inward
It has been a long time since I shared anything. My life’s journeys (“Rihal” in Arabic) has taken me into unexpected pathways. As part of that journey I found myself incubated in a beautiful quiet town surrounded by nature. It wasn’t planned nor expected; but here I am surrendering to an incubation within the womb […]
Rites of Passage
I heard this term first when I was reading about the rituals that tribes in Africa use to pick and later on celebrate the new hunters. Aspiring young males, were sent to the forest with only a spear to kill a lion. Those who survived and succeeded in the mission were accepted as part of […]
Learning when to let go
If you know me personally or you read my previous post “Flowing with Uncertainty”, you will know that I am a warrior. I will borrow the words of Paulo Coelho and say a “Warrior of Light”. One important characteristic that comes with being a warrior is persistence. Once I identify a clear goal that I […]
Flowing with uncertainty
Many of us were born with a clear plan for our lives. It starts with our parents planning to have their 1st or in my case 2nd child and it goes through the school plan, university, career, marriage, and kids, and the story goes on. Of course, there is always room to improvise even if […]