the “Tree of 40 Fruit”

Using an ancient technique called “chip grafting,” (splicing branches with buds of various varieties into a base branch), artist and University professor Sam Van...

live and let live

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.” ― Rumi.

My Lebanon

Extract of a poem of Gibran khalil Gibran written after the first World War, in the 1920's...: "What will remain of your Lebanon after a...

Scary! Five Pacific islands have already disappeared due to sea-level rise.

Five small islands that are part of the Solomon Islands cluster in the Pacific have just been submerged by rising sea levels. The sinking...

Hope for the best

“You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it...

The positive side.

'And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.'...