Photo by Edmund Lou on Unsplash You the poor, the weak, the orphanThe simple minded, the infantThe elderly, the immigrantYou, the black sheep and the black swan Our Lords and our Masters Let the board sound Rabih
Our Lords and Our Masters
Small Angel
A small angel with a smile which only a child can make so sweet Photo by Abbas Tehrani on Unsplash September 2015. A small angel washes up dead on the Turkish shores. The most sacred of all had just been trampled by the powerful, the greedy and the fool. He was two years old. He was wearing a... Continue Reading →
The Lottery Ticket
And a moral dilemma in that little brain of mine Photo by Alejandro Garay on Unsplash So I wake up on lottery day, with a weird idea wandering in my sleepy mind, as if speaking to me. “Say you win the lottery today, would you give it all up, all the 154,000,000.00 euros, for no reason whatsoever?”... Continue Reading →
Une leçon d’échecs
1990, vers février ou mars. La dernière phase d'une guerre qui gronde depuis 15 ans. Dans la salle de séjour, entre deux sifflements d'obus, un papa, une paire de ciseaux à la main, découpe un bout de carton en petits confettis qu'il colorie ensuite en noir ou en rouge. Ainsi émergent un roi, un fou,... Continue Reading →
On children
I was driving back home. It had been one of those days which make you long for the nights. Down the street, a traffic light turning green. And a pedestrian deciding it was about time to cross. Photo by Jan Kopriva As I got closer, I took a silent stab at him. I was not impressed.... Continue Reading →
The Idea Sounding Board 