Jul 5, 2018

The Secret Garden - Photo update

Our Secret Garden Project continues showing signs of growth and with it, kindness. We will continue on. #Gallery #English

Jan 11, 2018

Dough

" There's a point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit...

Jan 1, 2018

Happy New Year from Kurdistan

You remember the scene from the film Narnia, where Aslan arrives to confront the Witch, and slowly the ice begins to melt, and winter...

Dec 27, 2017

Wow! What a Ride!

" Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid...

Dec 27, 2017

Bragging: Vitamin A(ffirmation)

You've heard about our Kids. Our Kids in War City. Simply amazing mostly Syrian children, mixed with some from Mosul...all of whom have...

Dec 22, 2017

Halfway up a Mountain

There is a tiny 40 family Yezidi camp. Two years ago it was love at first sight and we all adopted each other and have walked close...

Dec 12, 2017

Kids Pursuing Peace

It wasn't an event. Or a" one-off." It was the introduction of a culture. A culture of peace. Three days later and we are still unable to...

Dec 7, 2017

We Shall See the Sky Sparkle with Diamonds

"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkle with diamonds." Chekhov. And so indeed we shall. I may be...

Dec 7, 2017

The Kids the World Almost Broke

But they didn't. Not because the World stepped in to save them when they were entrenched deep in the heart of the Black Flag recruitment...

Dec 5, 2017

Kids Pursuing Peace

Take ten brave Syrian kids. Put them together with some thirty Yezidi kids who were rescued from the Black Flag people. Add some Jewish...

Nov 29, 2017

A Sanctuary of Hope

It was quiet inside the Rainbow Zone today. The first day of every semester is Listening Day. A day where we sit well back and let the...

Nov 23, 2017

Thankful.

My day began just five minutes away from my home in Kurdistan, North Iraq. Inside what is home turf to me, it began in Shariya Camp. Not...

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