Happy Belated New Year 2012

23 Jan 2012 1 Comment

by natashalatiff in Afghanistan, Inspiration & Life, Kabuli Home, Letters, Prose, Travelogue

Memories of 2011, most of which are with Shoaib :)

Shoaib cooking on a bokhari stove

23 Dec 2011 1 Comment

by natashalatiff in Kabuli Home, Travelogue

Mister BBC

17 Jan 2011 1 Comment

by natashalatiff in Afghanistan, Kabuli Home, Travelogue

I was walking around with my film camera .

Afghan boy: Hello! Hello! Mister BBC, How are you, I’m fine thank you (testing his English). Mister BBC! Mister BBC

Natasha: Mister? I’m not a man. I’m a woman (as though that was more important repudiating than the fact that I was not working for BBC!)

Afghan Teacher walks up to me, wrongly believing I was offended. Afghan teacher: I’m sorry miss. But you know these children they cannot speak English so they did not know.

Natasha: Oh yes of course! I was just joking with them. Afghan teacher does not understand me.

Afghan teachers asks: So who are you reporting for? BBC or AL-Jazeera? Natasha laughs.

Natasha replies: No none! I am filming for Aschiana.

Afghan teacher: For Our Aschiana?

Natasha: Yes! Your Aschiana!

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Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

Buddha

We are not a permanent, unchanging self; we flow like water, with no place to abide. So with no safe place to stand, the bodhisattva flies, flies on the wings of compassion and wisdom

Thoreau

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary... In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.