EMPATHIE RESULTANT D'UN SURVOL (OVER-FLY RESULTING IN EMPATHY)

At 2.30 pm two days ago, beautiful sunny day, I walk back to work and as I stand at the door of the Cancer Hospital, a military fighterplane screams by at a surprisingly low altitude. The sound is terrifying, the entire world shakes, and I imagine the feeling of being at the other end of that plane, blown up to pieces by a megaton bomb.

Then I imagine the use of such force to kill children...
I can't help but picture flies on the ground being swatted by a huge, powerful hand and reduced to a paste.

And my body shakes uncontrollably as a wave of fear slaps my being.

(Pic: Soaring, A. Wyeth)

CHOSE PROMISE, CHOSE DUE

AN INTROSPECTIVE INTERPRETATION OF WORLD POLITICS

'THE TIMELESS FIGHT BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL

RAGES WITHIN EACH ONE OF US'

Ostfen, 2006

A RELATIVISTIC APPROACH TO LOVE THY NEIGHBOR

Today, i received in my mailbox this notification that a convicted sex offender was living in the appartment building right next to mine. Apparently, Ohio law stipulates that you should be informed about any sex offenders living in your neighborhood, for your own protection. My first thought went to my girlfriend who often parks her car and comes to visit me in the evening. Then I thought: Man, who do you think is better off, her, here, living next to a sex offender or her parents and mine back in Lebanon, living next to Israel?
And then I thanked my lucky stars and stopped fearing my neighbour on West 8th.