Many pieces of music that I like keep disappearing from MySpace so I present to you a few of my favorites that I hope you will like. I plan to stick around for a while.
Take a look at my pictures and please also visit Atlanta Baroque Dance's Myspace page and click 'Videos' to see us in action. You can visit our main page at Atlanta Baroque Dance and my 1860's dance group at Stately Vintage Dancers.
You should learn how to play Scopa, a 16th century Italian card game. Once you've mastered it, you can play with the big boys at www.scopacards.com.
In this old world that we live in
There is one great joy that everyone can share,
The joy of giving to the
People for whom we care;
If you show love in small ways
It is always there.
To be giving and forgiving
Is to know the reason why we're living.
What's so hard about giving?
It's a perfectly simple art
The trick is to live with love from the start
And to give with an open heart.
Beloved friend,
May your Christmas be as special and unique as you are!
Nabeel
This Syrian village, Saidnaya, where houses are built around a rock with a very old convent at the top, is considered a place for religious pilgrimage.
A steep climb is the only way up to the convent, which is said to date back to the Emperor Justinian.
Legend has it that the Virgin Mary appeared to Justinian and asked him to found the convent.
After entering through a maze of passages, you finally reach the Chapel of the Virgin. The walls are covered with beautiful icons including one said to have been painted by St. Luke.
This chapel was very famous to Christians and at one point was the second Christian place of pilgrimage after Jerusalem, the crusaders called it "Notre Dame de Sardeneye".
Greetings and love from Syria
Nabeel
Let not my love be called idolatry,
Nor my beloved as an idol show,
Since all alike my songs and praises be
To one, of one, still such, and ever so.
Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind,
Still constant in a wondrous excellence;
Therefore my verse to constancy confined,
One thing expressing, leaves out difference.
Fair, kind, and true, is all my argument,
Fair, kind, and true, varying to other words;
And in this change is my invention spent,
Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.
Fair, kind, and true, have often lived alone,
Which three till now, never kept seat in one.
Hello! How are you doing? Did you enjoy your weekend? I am pleased you like Italy...there is so much art, so many ancient places to visit! I live quite near the royal palace of Caserta, and also the one in Naples! What a wonder!!!
