Our guest today: Kahlil Gibran
Prayer flags, for our sanity and our country " Speak to us of good and evil.... Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil, but good, tortured by its own hunger and thirst?" Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet This blog is about pretending that things are okay, even if they are not. It is about imagining flight when you are stationary and bound, mostly to your own home. It is about escaping the harsh reality of feeling like a hostage of your own mind. If I could, I would have invited the whole of South Africa to this Lebanese feast. Because hell knows, we needed it. I promised myself not to linger on reality, but I need to say that our country has just been through quite a harsh struggle. The looting and destruction of property last month showed political shades of grey we didn't even know existed. What was real? Who are we? Truth is, that no matter how you argue the unrest, there were only losses, fear and the dismantling of the last little bits...