Today it is time to write. I haven't written on this page for nearly a year. It's an ebb and flow of introversion and extroversion and putting thoughts out into the world via spoken or written language, music, theater, artistic expression or stark silence. Living life in the present is the best present one can give to oneself.
At times, life simply makes decisions for you, no matter how many decisions you attempt to make on your own.
After many months of searching, I finally feel like life and I are making mutual decisions again.
Beginning this November, I'm off to formally study Arabic in Amman, Jordan for two months. I hope this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship with this beautiful country I have only read about.
I am re-vamping the writing so that I may share bits and pieces of a Middle East that we don't see or hear about enough in the news today. There is still peaceful and educational life happening outside of bombings and beheadings and blitzes blown up all over our news feeds, although it's undeniable that those are existing too.
Thank you to all those who can support my decision to journey to non-traditional locations and engage in cultural and educational excursions. The decision to study in the Middle East has been a long time coming and it's something that can't just be shrugged off.
There is more to this story, but for now here are some stock photos until I can post some of my own:
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| Dead Sea |
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| Petra |
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| Amman |
