Posted in magic moments, poetry on Jul 28th, 2008
The day my husband called me at work about receiving Treasures from Baghdad …life for a moment seemed surreal…like it just stopped all of a sudden to take a breath…for soon the universe was about to open up and change everything all at once…
That evening I sat in front of my computer and had [...]
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Posted in movies, peaceful world on Jul 21st, 2008
The year before the first Desert Storm, I had the wonderful opportunity to visit my husbands family in Baghdad. It was the year I fell in love with them… these beautiful loving people that accepted me so lovingly into their home and their life. I had big dreams of going back every few years to [...]
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I tried doing this about a year ago using Macromedia Flash, and the music just didn’t sync when I went to upload it. So I have redone it using Windows Movie Maker and Photo Story 3. The results are much better, It was so much easier to work with, plus I am able to [...]
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Posted in photo challenge, photos on Jul 4th, 2008
When I went to visit my family in Baghdad, they gave me this picture book depicting the pride and beauty of Iraq. It is my hope that the pride and beauty will some day be restored.
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Posted in movies on May 29th, 2008
I had the opportunity to watch this DVD a few weeks ago.
"Turtles can fly" is a film written and directed Bahman Ghobad , a Kurdish film maker from Iran.
The film takes place in a refugee camp along the Iraq-Turkish border before the Americans invaded Iraq in 2003 and consists of mainly child actors who [...]
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