The Pale Blue Dot

TOMORROW: EMERGENCY PROTEST AGAINST MASSACRES IN GAZA!

EMERGENCY PROTEST AGAINST MASSACRES IN GAZA!

TIME: MONDAY 29th, 4PM

LET US SHOW OUR OUTRAGE TOGETHER!

PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY

LOCATION: SHARE3 AL-THAQAFA, SHMESANI

(This protest has been approved by the Governor of Amman and is organized by concerned Jordanian citizens).

Contact:

Mary (079 55 22 702) (English/French)
Ruba (079 55 07 479) (Arabic)
Mohammad (079 9207 056 (Arabic/Spanish)

Note: We will be gathering at the Radisson SAS hotel at 11am tomorrow (Monday) to prepare posters and banners. We need help. Please join us. Please call numbers above for information.


اعتصام إحتجاجاً على المجازر في غزة

الوقت: غداً الإثنين 29/12 الساعة الرابعة مساءاً

المكان: شارع الثقافة - الشميساني

لنظهر غضبنا معا!

من فضلكم أخبروا أصدقائكم وأقاربكم

(يلاقي هذا الإحتجاج موافقة من محافظة عمان وينظم من قبل مواطنين أردنيين مهتمين)


للاتصال

ماري 0795522702 انجليزي/فرنسي
ربا 0795507479 عربي
محمد 0799207056 عربي/إسباني

ملاحظة: سنتجمع في فندق الراديسون ساس غداً (الإثنين) الساعة 11 صباحاً لتجهيز اليافطات. نحتاج للمساعدة. نرجوا أن تنضموا إلينا. للمزيد من المعلومات يرجى الاتصال في الأرقام أعلاه.


People. there is no shame in protesting and its not useless, when we join together for Peace. Voices will be heard. Step Up. Speak Up. No one will chop your head for voicing your mind. those people got their permits and there you have the numbers to call and verify.

LET THE WORLD HEAR OUR VOICE, LET THE WORLD HEAR US REASON.

PEACE

PS: get creative.

Horton Hears a Who

This is not an animation for kids, its the best animation movie i've seen in ages. its definitely one of my all time favourites. i loved it. great script and stunning scenes.

"There is an elephent in the sky, his name is horton and our world is a speck on clover in his world"

Horton the Elephant on the fifteenth of May in the jungle of Nool hears a small speck of dust talking to him. It turns out the speck of dust is actually a tiny planet, home to a city called "Whoville", inhabited by microscopic-sized inhabitants known as Whos

conclusion: we have to find a way to talk to another species at least on our planet.

quick memo

an amazing person said these specific words today and i want to keep it somewhere for later on.

الخيال
الضمير
الارادة الحرة
معرفة الذات

those four words govern our behavior & decision in any situation, she said something else that i loved, we always make decisions with an amount of ignorance, you need to be humble when it comes to knowledge so you can accept new knowledge. the more you know, the more you would be able to make better decisions. i asked her, how would you know your limits? is there what you cant do? she said, i hate the word limits, its like looking for puting obstacles, and thats when you mentally lose the battle, think of a different word. Exposure. the more you get exposed, the more you know what you want.

Yesterday a Jordanian business man and millionaire told us in a session as he is approaching his late forties that until 2007 he was living in a rented house and this year he finished building his own house, it took him 25 years. before 25 years he could have bought a house, but what he told us is instead of owning a house, and giving a job to 3 maids and a guard who are non jordanians, he invested in every dinar he had to establish a company making risk on self employment and today it grew to hire hundreds of jordanian employees, competes in the American market in price and standards, last week he closed a deal for 60 million dinars project in the Emarites, and is capable of owning 6 houses at the same time if he wanted to. there was a key sentence to all that... he said " when a human stops learning , he dies "

Keep Talking

For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals
Then something happenend which unleashed the power of our imagination
We learned to talk

where do we go from here?

Hello Spring

Spring is here :D i love this season a lot because its happy, not too cold, not too hot, warm sunny and colorful, spring in my head equals almond, apricote and peach tree blossoms, butterflies and more daytime

UN appoints Rima Salah of Jordan as Deputy Special Representative

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Rima Salah of Jordan as Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT).

Ms. Salah has served the United Nations for 20 years in increasingly senior positions in the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). She recently served as UNICEF Deputy Executive Director in New York. Prior to this appointment, she worked as UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa in Dakar, Senegal, where, among other achievements, she was responsible for the establishment of the United Nations office in Abéché. Earlier in her career, she served with UNICEF in Viet Nam, Burkina Faso, and Pakistan.

Ms. Salah was born in 1943 and holds a doctorate in cultural anthropology from the State University of New York. She is fluent in English, French, and Arabic.

peace of heart

Kant's -- What is Enlightment? (1784)

200 years before i came to earth, Kant answered this question saying:

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! [dare to know] "Have courage to use your own understanding!"--that is the motto of enlightenment

Let The Drummer Kick That

Let the drummer kick
Let the drummer kick that

Relations Apollo had to break 'em
Creation Its a gift, a blessing
Incarceration What keeps you down
Determination What gets you out
Equation When they said you could make it
Humiliation What you feel when they say it
Reincarnation Say N-A-V
Situation Why we've got to sing
Elation So many in need
Identification Gives you the right to shoot
Retaliation What would it do
Education Gives you the right to choose
Inspiration Is what pulls you through
No substitution No subsitute
Non-inclusion You've got to bust through
Drug infusion For the chosen few
Mass confusion When they say that they died for you

Delusion When they say that the dreams don't come true
Solution It can take a hold of you

Conclusion

Inspiration Is what pulls you through

Let the drummer kick

Inspiration
Let the drummer kick that

Inspiration
[repeat]

You don't even have to wait
You don't even have to wait

Let the drummer kick
Let the drummer kick that

Sabaa7 il Khaair ya Bloggers =)

Goooood Morning pretty people, i wish you all a beautiful day, you know,, there is nothing better than seeing a sunrise and hearing birds in the morning and breathing fresh air =D

My great grandfather used to say a man's working day starts with the sunrise and ends with the sunset, i was looking at the garden, i remembered him and it just occured to me that there is so much beauty around us we miss everyday, small things that would make us warm and i wanted to tell you that its up to us how we walk through our days and we can make them sweeet, as much as you are.

so here is my dedication to you,, Mawtini By Elham Madfai... did you know that the national anthem for Iraq and Palestine is Mawtini

i'll jump across for you

a story, of me, of you, of him, and him and her, of them, of the whole, we look at ourselves as part of the whole or a small whole for a fact, we say that there are people like us,, see,, look around you,, we are not unique.

but yet we feel "ghurbeh", we are with the other, we share so much, build together but we believe that no one knows the same ghurbeh and it resides within.

if i let myself see you in a different light, if you let me see who you are, i will see how much we are alike,,

did you ever see a knight in a circassian's eyes. he thinks of himself as a knight till the day, a circassian used not to dine with his parents on a table so a child won't get attached to his father when he might not be at the table the day after, never gives a chance to weaken because he has a responsibility dictated by years of war which shaped the heart and the mind.

a Chechnyan respect for life, did you ever see them dance, that soldier like one on the outside, they don't dance like circassians, they have this very sensitive and transparent definition for love and devotion. they hold so much in their hearts but they are full of feelings. they still see soldiers in them till the day

did you ever see the artist in every Armenian. the pianist, the soft ballerina,, the love for theater the love and warmth they bring to their small community that has art at the core every family's construct.
Armenia is Heaven for them till the day

did you ever see the free soul of a bedouin, their love for independence and their passion for poetry, contemplating under a tree with flute is meaningful till the day and it moves the bottoms of their hearts .

did you ever touch the peace in a Christian's depth, did you see a qiddees in a Christian's eyes.
spirituality is the way till the day.

did you see " il jar7 " in a Palestinian heart, did you see il ghurbeh, do you know what marcel khalifeh means? there is a fighter inside everyone till the day.

we are all Jordanians, we all have pain. and i never saw yours, because i only saw mine,, i didnt let myself understand yours, but if you let all this dissolve, we are whole and we are one, if we let ourselves know the culture, live the culture of the other heart and soul,, it makes sense to me to see you in different light and i truly can feel you as well, you will find that we are just individuals, when it hurts its the same,,, but we don't have to keep it in getos.

we can start with ourselves and be an example for others, break the tradition boundary by learning it and even more learn to enjoy living it and make it a reason for growth.

i will jump across for you.

Sunscreen

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’99
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience…I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.
But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked….You’re not as fat as you imagine. Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing
bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday. Do one thing everyday that scares you Sing Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours. Floss Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself. Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you
succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements. Stretch Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your
life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t. Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone. Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children,maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. Enjoy your body, use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.. Dance…even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room. Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them. Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly. Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and
lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live
in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel. Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders. Respect your elders. Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out. Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85. Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen…
Baz Huhrmann

Little

Tucked in bed and kissed good night, daddy's two little girls, with golden brown curls and pink cheeks, wearing their night gowns together with their stuffed purple elephant and blue monkey, the moon says its time to sleep.

Little: daddy, i don't want to sleep now. i am not sleepy, its morning now, when will i wake up? how come i am awake and its not morning?
Dad: sweety, its 8:00 pm and you will wake up at 6:00 am to the bus, there are plenty of hours to sleep, 10 hours.
Little thought for a bit and looked at her dad: i finished the ten hours, see, i am awake
Dad: sweety, can you see the moon out there, its dark outside, when its sunny you can get up.

Dad goes, so she gets up and puts her shoes, sits in bed and waits for the morning to come.

the shoes, a pair like peter pan's but it was red. they giggled when their father passed by the room to check on them as they held their laughs so much under the blanket so they would seem sleeping, how strange she could sleep with her shoes on to bed she laughs..


Little started thinking of the school yard and the color book in her bag she will get to paint in tomorrow after passing the big black gate.

she looked from the window and it was still dark, asking the stars to become bigger so there would be more light.

eventually she went towards the window and looked at the moon, it was pretty circle, she could just keep looking and it made sense, she saw herself with one red shoes on and a tennis shoes, purple elephant and the coloring book in the school yard wearing her night gown. she smiled for how funny that is but kept going, it was wonderland. it was the feeling that i want tomorrow to come so fast. tomorrow is more magic.

a dream sees itself true. a small spontaneous passion.

wonderland.

what would keep you 100% tuned in these days?