http://annedegraaf.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/between-the-lines/ Life on the edge by award-winning author and speaker: International-Intrigue-Injustice Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:25:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://annedegraaf.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/between-the-lines/#comment-1250 Elske Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:44:49 +0000 http://annedegraaf.wordpress.com/?p=350#comment-1250 As you know, I lived in Beirut during the civil war. People would kill each other, a life is cheap, wrong time wrong place and you were dead, bad luck. A gun in your hands and "homen homini lupus est"... But when the trees started to show bullet holes, my world collapsed: have we really come this far? The birds stopped singing and disappeared and nothing could counterbalance the all invasive destruction anymore. Self destruction is a disease from which it takes generations to recover. And the Lebanese have been, are and always will be a loving, hospitable people with a great sense of of humor and where you learn what respect for each other means. There we learned some lessons that still determine the quality of our lives today! Do go back! Elske As you know, I lived in Beirut during the civil war. People would kill each other, a life is cheap, wrong time wrong place and you were dead, bad luck. A gun in your hands and “homen homini lupus est”… But when the trees started to show bullet holes, my world collapsed: have we really come this far? The birds stopped singing and disappeared and nothing could counterbalance the all invasive destruction anymore.
Self destruction is a disease from which it takes generations to recover. And the Lebanese have been, are and always will be a loving, hospitable people with a great sense of of humor and where you learn what respect for each other means. There we learned some lessons that still determine the quality of our lives today!
Do go back!
Elske

]]> http://annedegraaf.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/between-the-lines/#comment-1247 Robin Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:49:04 +0000 http://annedegraaf.wordpress.com/?p=350#comment-1247 wow. so moving. What an extraordinary gathering of people at such a unique time in history. And there you were. This is definitely what you were created to do, my friend. wow. so moving. What an extraordinary gathering of people at such a unique time in history. And there you were. This is definitely what you were created to do, my friend.

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