I thought I was talking to my granddaughter about something that would make her happy. I told her, "is it not great that we get to spend fifty days together?". I did not expect her reaction. She immediately put her hands over her ears, refusing to hear, and raised her voice and said: "do not ...
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Orthodox Christian family
The Homeland on the Alert
The question my grandson posed to us yesterday is: "is this Lebanon?". He knows Lebanon. He lived in it a little more than the years he spent away from it. He did not explain himself. He said nothing about what he knew about his country. He said nothing about us, about their house, about ours… ...
Read moreMy Mother
My mother’s face was heaven on earth. Does love get stronger after death? Do those who depart persist, more and more, in their being present? In order to rest from any fatigue, I only had to look at her, to run to her eyes which had almost broken up with the sight of the earth ...
Read moreAn Image of the Estrangement
I saw them. The three of them, two little girls and a boy, were in front of a building run by their father. The eldest girl, no more than ten years old, was humming a song by a singer from her country. As for the middle one, she was wiping, with a paper towel, something ...
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Welcome to our home, Naï. Welcome, O pretty one who has followed her two siblings in getting born. Life did not allow us to rejoice in welcoming you in the faraway country. I am welcoming you from afar. I am writing these lines for you. I hope, when you read them, that you will say ...
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