Thank you Sabin. I knew you wouldn't be far from this board for too long
Do you finally have msn now?
I'm back to Italy, by the way. But I miss the Middle East already - its confusion, its emotions, its dangers even. An unforgettable - though unusual and sometimes difficult - summer.
Thank you - or, as they say here, shoukran... Am in scarred, unrecognizable Beirut now - maybe for the last time in my life. So sad to see a place you've loved so much in such a situation: a once proud city now humiliated, once lively now so silent - and on the verge of a possibly even bigger disaster.
Thank you guys... A big collective hug from hot (in many, many ways) Damascus - where the only "big" movie opening in the only western-oriented cinema is "Firewall" with Harrison Ford... No wonder they hate us so much!
"Because here’s the thing about life: There’s no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days when you need a hand. There are other days when we’re called to lend a hand." -- President Joe Biden, 01/20/2021