Mind Soup

Date:  Tuesday, November 9 · 8:00pm - 10:30pm Location: AUB West Hall Bathish The AUB Music Club in association with the AUB President's Club is proud to present November Rain! This is the first of hopefully many awesome events that will take place throughout this year. AUB's talented muscians will be performing on the stage of Bathish (West Hall). They will be covering different musical styles including blues, rock, jazz, alternative and more... Bands that will be performing: Lazzy Lung Home Made Plugged The Passive Standouts Along with other classical, jazz & acoustic solo pieces... -Ticket Price: 5,000 L.L sold as of Monday November 1st on the Music Club stand outside West Hall and at the door. -Non A.U.B students must bring their official ID! - Check out the event's Facebook page . Hope to see you there!

MIND SOUP : So today, October 15, is Blog Action Day 2010 . The theme this year is water . As I live in a country where water is theoretically abundant, I, as many other Lebanese, may not feel the urge to conserve water or use it wisely. But as I watch TV and read bloggers posts from other countries, I have become more aware of the critical water situation the world is facing. After enrolling as a blogger against hunger for the United Nations World Food Programme and engaging more into the world blogosphere, I was shocked to know that around 4.500 children die daily from water related diseases and that a almost a billion people on Earth don't have access to clean and safe drinking water ! Since then I realized that there are so many things with our water consumption in Lebanon. We take hour-long showers, flood our houses to get them cleaned, stare at the open faucet while brushing our teeth, and use excessive amounts of water to irrigate our flowers and plants. But the most un...

Our lives were full of sunshine together day and night. The sun bright up in vanilla skies reaching out like wings of a dove , the light barefoot gently swifting through tree branches. A hot breeze blew, our dreams fell devastated , the lantern of our nights faded searching for the moon to give us royal light. Where are you moon? There was no moon. Veins of a maple leaf hugging the rain that falls without doubt. Winds carry leaves away , you are lost, lost in the sounds of wh at you hear, wind, autumn's careless bride walking forever in a season. The sun has come and left. Freezing , the wind blew cold defeating your warmth, tears dripping on your velvet dress, erasing photos erasing memories. The rain cheapening your human tears. We did not believe that fate is our fate. We thought the universe began with us , there were only two, the two of us. W istful hearts ached when years tumbled when horizons kept broadening until cont...

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Today (September 22) marks the beginning of the Autumn season this year, and in Lebanon it has officially began a couple of days ago with the heavy rain we were witnessing. The first day of autumn arrives on varying dates in different years for two reasons: Our year is not exactly an even number of days; and Earth's slightly noncircular orbit, plus the gravitational tug of the other planets, constantly changes our planet's orientation to the sun from year to year. And weather-wise, Earth's seasons have shifted in the past 150 years or so, according to a study that came out earlier this year. The hottest and coldest days of the years now are occurring almost two days earlier. This year, fall starts Tuesday, because that is when the so-called autumnal equinox occurs (at 5:18 p.m. EDT). Equinoxes (which mark the onset of spring and autumn) and solstices (which mark when summer and winter begin) are points in time and space that mark a transition in our planet's ann...

London, United Kingdom , September 6, 2009-- Paddlers ply the River Thames, which was recently turned into a giant bathtub for the annual Great British Duck Race. Organizers released 205,000 blue rubber ducks—each sponsored by a donor—into the river, breaking the race's previous world record of 175,000 ducks. The first ducks to cross the finish line win their sponsors cash and other prizes. This year the event supported the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Kierdijk, Netherlands , September 7, 2009-- Winds of change blew through the historic mill complex at Kinderdijk this week. For the first time, energy-efficient LED bulbs powered the popular Dutch tourist attraction's annual illumination. Part of a UN World Heritage site, the windmills help pump water in and out of low-lying areas called polders. Centuries before the mills were built around 1740, a cat was spotted balancing atop a baby in a cradle during a flood, hence the name Kinderdijk (...

The sky was blue, Blue as could be… The sun shinning brightly! Painfully warm… Over the distance, I could hear the birds, Crooning loudly, As if just for me, But still, Painfully noisy… I could smell the roses, Their aroma so dense… As if I were in the middle of meadow… Their scent, Painfully smothering… I could hear voices, Children crying, Adults talking, arguing, Cars honking irritably, Dogs barking continuously… Their voices & noises were, Painfully close & sharp… I could feel the wind, It was picking up the dust, Heavy with it, And stirring it around me… Painfully provoking… Yet, With all those distractions, I could still smell it, I knew soon, It would fall!! It would shower me. Wash me. Bless me… Soon, It would cleanse everything, Would make everything clean… For a few second, Everything would just be… Fresh, proper, and new… The rain… It would be able to, Extinguish the sizzling heat from the sun’s warmth, Extinguish the noise from the birds’ chipper, Extinguish the dar...