Living in Emergency

How is life, when you have to constantly think about being alive? When all you care about is the essentials? It's like you are running all the time, you are running for your life, you can't stop but run constantly, just so that you can stay alive for one more day, one more hour, one more minute, or even for one more second! I always wonder, how is life in emergency? I think living in emergency brings the best out of people. When you survive a war, you change completely. War teaches you: what is being human, it's about caring for others, it's about kindness, it's about saving others' lives. Fighting a war and living through a war is living with a great mission of saving lives and fighting for a great cause.

My heart goes out for the people in Syria, so many of them are dying everyday. Talking to the Syrian people here in the US have been a great experience over the past few months. They are always concerned about their families and friends back home, they are trying to do everything they can to help out. I m fortunate to meet and join some young Syrians in Boston, who are using all their efforts in organizing and participating in activities to establish human rights for all!!

 

Flash Mob for Syria at Harvard Square in May 23, 2012

Candle Vigil for Syrian Children, June 28 2012

Candle Vigil for Syrian Children, June 28 2012

Candle Vigil for US Ambassador Chris Stevens from the Muslim Community in Boson, September 13 2012

Candle Vigil for US Ambassador Chris Stevens at Harvard Square, September 13, 2012

The Sun is Generous!!

Herring Cove Beach, probably the only place in the east coast  where you can see the SUN SET over the water!!

I witnessed the sun immersing itself into the Atlantic happily !!!
Such a peaceful and serene place indeed!

 The beach is so peaceful and warm. When you're at the beach all you hear is the sound of the waves and the wind. You won't hear or see anything else except the ocean.

I went in a cold November windy day around 4pm in 2011. The sun started going toward the ocean by 4:15pm. Watching the path of the sun toward the ocean was amazing, especially, when it came really really close to the ocean around 4:30pm. It was so windy that I could hardly stand there.

  

This photo was taken when the sun was fully immersed by the ocean, the vast expanse of water already engulfed the sun. It's as though, the sun is showing gratitude, telling the wise ocean thank you! Saying,   'Thank you dear ocean for being so huge but humble and for providing me a home to rest.'

 

When the sun left the sky and went to rest for the day, the sky looked profoundly calm and serene. The ocean was also calmer than before. Many seagulls started flying happily; cheering to go home and rest for the day. They were all saying Thank you, to the ocean and the sun. Although, the sun and the ocean are so opposite, fire and water,  together they work harmoniously to keep our mother nature going! They work together and thank each other!! How wonderful it would be if we, human beings, worked together to make this world world a better place to live by forgetting all our dissimilarities about race and religion!  The world would definitely be much calmer, just like the sunset sky at the beach :)

Farming at the World Fellowship Center!

Here is the farmer man with pink pants! He is working at the field all day long, seven days a week with a happy face!! His work day starts very early in the morning when the sun rises and ends with the sun set.  In the evening, he sits on the leaving room sofa, reading for pleasure or just thinking about nature!! I haven't met a happy person like him in years! I volunteered to assist him in farming the next morning!!

After working all day long, I was exhausted but very happy!! I realized, happiness comes from being close to mother nature.

Kinship with nature is a great way to heal the mind and the heart.

The farmer man taught me how to prepare the soil before planting the seeds and how the season affects the plants. He also knows about medicinal plants that can help you recover form bug bites!!
ha ha ..the bugs were all over me, buzzing and singing on my ears.

Spider Web

Farmer Girl (me)

they were hard to get rid off.
I was in search for medicinal plants. Haven't found any though :(

However, I found some cool spiders and here is a photo of the spider web!

 I realized, We do not need much to be happy, all we need is to be satisfied in whatever we do. When the satisfaction comes from small things such as preparing the soil for planting, happiness is easily reachable!!

The World Fellowship Center is a wonderful place to discover yourself being happy just being you.
Sometimes we forget that we are part of nature. Living in the city , the man made mountains, we may feel that we are different from other living beings. Actually, we are not.
We are nature, alienating ourselves from our natural habitat brings chaos and imbalance in the mind. 
The calmness of nature brings balance in our lives, keeps our mind at peace and heals our heart profoundly. That is why, being close to mother earth brings so much happiness!!

Memorial Day Weekend ( May 26-28, 2012)

Stillness

Stillness is profound. The still, serene summer sky speaks out, when the sun has just set. It says, the best season of life is that when the mind is not clouded by random thoughts. However, clouds add color to the sunset sky, decorates it, and creates artwork. Similarly, having colorful imagination decorates our mind, creates harmony and brings peace to the restless mind!! The wisdom of nature is so wonderful, watching the sunset sky is a way to assure our mind that peace is here, in stillness!! Peace is here, in Silence!

Infinite Patience

The wonderful Mount Chocorua in New Hampshire, taught me how to practice having patience in life. Practicing infinite patience is a great challenge. However, while observing the huge and humble mountain, noticing the calmness of the water, and the slow movement of the clouds, i realized that nature has it's own way of unfolding things. Nature doesn't rush but things happen at the right time; at the perfect moment! Nature teaches us to practice infinite patience. Relax, let go, and breath deep when the situation is tense. Surrender and detach yourself. Only time will tell what's next and what's best!!!