A Christmas Tale
By Hamid Douaihy
In the Country of Gold and Emeralds,
Lived a girl of Grace and Sweetness…
In a poor unheated house, beating all odds,
To watch for her parents, lying in illness…
She was content but with no Hope at all,
Until one night Stars envied her Heart,
And decided that when holidays will fall,
They'd lighten her world with Magical Art!
The night came, when smiles were drawn,
On people's faces but not on her own…
And the Stars sent the girl some Light,
From high above and made her see Bright…
Choosing from all the earthly Wishes one,
Above all that she wanted, including fun…
So the girl sat down and gave a thought,
Of all the wealth she could have brought…
But instead of Emeralds and Eternal Gold,
The girl chose longtime Health to unfold,
In her parents' heart and made them realize,
How Great is Content, how Useful and Wise!
Lived a girl of Grace and Sweetness…
In a poor unheated house, beating all odds,
To watch for her parents, lying in illness…
She was content but with no Hope at all,
Until one night Stars envied her Heart,
And decided that when holidays will fall,
They'd lighten her world with Magical Art!
The night came, when smiles were drawn,
On people's faces but not on her own…
And the Stars sent the girl some Light,
From high above and made her see Bright…
Choosing from all the earthly Wishes one,
Above all that she wanted, including fun…
So the girl sat down and gave a thought,
Of all the wealth she could have brought…
But instead of Emeralds and Eternal Gold,
The girl chose longtime Health to unfold,
In her parents' heart and made them realize,
How Great is Content, how Useful and Wise!
Dress to turn stress into success
By Lina Hanna
Did you ever try to look at clothes from a different angle? Did you ever stop to think of your closet as your anti stress factor? Oh you must have overlooked that within your wardrobe lays your doorway to a world where you can change and switch from one look to another in a fashion game that will pump the adrenaline in your blood and puts your psychological state of being in a fiesta mode where life becomes nothing but vivid colors and wonderful fabrics that will highlight the fashionista in you!
Discover your self-indulgent beast, revealing delicious excess. Bask in your favorite outfits by adding and enjoying a trendy hip chic look, with a sensual, tap. Create your comfort zone by beautifying everything around you starting with yourself to reach your home because when you are being surrounded by pleasing, soothing things, the good life in all its guises would be yours to have your fun fiesta everyday!
Our hectic fast rhythm life style deprives us from pleasures and delights that are guaranteed to kill the stress and replace it with success! Sometimes a simple change in looks would do the trick and work its magic on our well being, a change is always good to refresh the soul, to boost our energy, to shed skins, to rejuvenate and recreate our self image, it can be a modification from a conservative daytime look into a dramatic evening outfit that will awaken the dormant diva within us!
We should learn when to persist and never to resist by getting anxious and opposing to what is coming after each turn; we should train ourselves not to micromanage even the smallest, most insignificant things in our lives, just sit back , relax and let life unfolds with its mystery!
The first step on the journey to our style calling in life is to listen to our internal voices and respond to the knocking trends at the door. Wear your stress away, each time you feel the grab of life on your neck, just go out and buy yourself a pair of shoes and a killer dress and show life challenges a thing or two! Do not under estimate the power of sexy shoes, or a dress you wear only to entice those who see you wearing it to take it off of you!
As you do so, the symptoms and anxieties that have haunted us will fade into the background, replaced by the droll of hitting stress in the face with a new mode every time; express yourself artistically. You possess a strong sensibility for beauty and crave modish clothes. Incorporate these qualities into your attire; Indulge your inner fashion designer t as you revamp something old giving it new heart, or change the color scheme of your favorite look, to exude more of your own warmth and passion.
Do not let anything let you down when you can go up high and above with your mode mood enhancer , whatever you feel like, always get up, dress up and show up!
Your own closet contains untold riches, so get busy digging and savoring each mode jewel alone, discover the many hues and colors reflected from within you to the outer world! Wear to shine and feel divine!
Discover your self-indulgent beast, revealing delicious excess. Bask in your favorite outfits by adding and enjoying a trendy hip chic look, with a sensual, tap. Create your comfort zone by beautifying everything around you starting with yourself to reach your home because when you are being surrounded by pleasing, soothing things, the good life in all its guises would be yours to have your fun fiesta everyday!
Our hectic fast rhythm life style deprives us from pleasures and delights that are guaranteed to kill the stress and replace it with success! Sometimes a simple change in looks would do the trick and work its magic on our well being, a change is always good to refresh the soul, to boost our energy, to shed skins, to rejuvenate and recreate our self image, it can be a modification from a conservative daytime look into a dramatic evening outfit that will awaken the dormant diva within us!
We should learn when to persist and never to resist by getting anxious and opposing to what is coming after each turn; we should train ourselves not to micromanage even the smallest, most insignificant things in our lives, just sit back , relax and let life unfolds with its mystery!
The first step on the journey to our style calling in life is to listen to our internal voices and respond to the knocking trends at the door. Wear your stress away, each time you feel the grab of life on your neck, just go out and buy yourself a pair of shoes and a killer dress and show life challenges a thing or two! Do not under estimate the power of sexy shoes, or a dress you wear only to entice those who see you wearing it to take it off of you!
As you do so, the symptoms and anxieties that have haunted us will fade into the background, replaced by the droll of hitting stress in the face with a new mode every time; express yourself artistically. You possess a strong sensibility for beauty and crave modish clothes. Incorporate these qualities into your attire; Indulge your inner fashion designer t as you revamp something old giving it new heart, or change the color scheme of your favorite look, to exude more of your own warmth and passion.
Do not let anything let you down when you can go up high and above with your mode mood enhancer , whatever you feel like, always get up, dress up and show up!
Your own closet contains untold riches, so get busy digging and savoring each mode jewel alone, discover the many hues and colors reflected from within you to the outer world! Wear to shine and feel divine!
Stress Success
By Lina Hanna
Beauty
By Lina Hanna
Beauty
Beauty has always been the subject of wonder, fascination and charm; hard to define and harder to resist, beauty is the outmost enchantment that we are weak to stand firm and refuse to succumb to its magical appeal. It arouses our senses and feeds our eyes with its splendor, its soothing upshot and its stirring impact that unifies the division in our being.
Beauty is not exclusively the physical beauty, beauty is also kindness, it is found in all the virtues one possess, it is in the substance, it is the inner world that is mirrored through the exterior one; our shapes and forms are but accidental, our private jewels lingers underneath our skin color, our hairdo and our physical assets, we shine and glow from the inside so it can be showed on our faces.
Evil is not attractive, abuse is never appealing; self-centeredness and egoism are never alluring even if decorated with the most stunning ornaments.
Violence is ugly, manipulation is hideous, there is nothing pleasant about having a rotten heart and bad intentions, hypocrisy turns what is beautiful into what is simply repulsive.
On the other hand, a warm hug and a kind smile even from a very ugly person is pure splendor and gorgeousness, an act of love and respect vibes and resonates with beauty. Beauty is a way of being a full human, to rise above and beyond the pettiness of animal instincts and savage behavioral pattern.
We all lean towards what is fine-looking; we all like to look at what gives our eyes comfort and hunger to feel more alive and more divine. And what can possibly give us that leap of sublime and that dose of a higher existence than a beautiful heart? No physical beauty alone can subsist and take over the beauty of a well designed and full Mind.
Human beings have always longed to beautify the places they occupied, we want to make our homes more beautiful, our streets, our countries, we are the makers of beautiful things and the consumers of exquisiteness, how is it that we crave beauty so much and yet walk on the path that drifts us further away from achieving it?
Why don’t we get more concerned in beautifying our hearts, purifying our souls, detoxifying our systems from all the venom and toxics that infects our humanity? When we invest our efforts and good taste in having a good grace we will reach our compassion and we will be able to enjoy the external beauty and be transformed with it in a way to have a harmony from deep within and towards the outer space we inhabit.
Let us enjoy beauty wherever it may be found, in nature, in people, in all the art produced by men in an attempt to kill away all the suffering he endures throughout the history.
Beauty is, and always will remain our salvation, our gateway from all what pulls us down to obscurity and monstrosity; it will elevate and educate our senses so that we can climb our mounts of selfishness and any deteriorated attributes that make us less humans and more savages.
Beauty is not exclusively the physical beauty, beauty is also kindness, it is found in all the virtues one possess, it is in the substance, it is the inner world that is mirrored through the exterior one; our shapes and forms are but accidental, our private jewels lingers underneath our skin color, our hairdo and our physical assets, we shine and glow from the inside so it can be showed on our faces.
Evil is not attractive, abuse is never appealing; self-centeredness and egoism are never alluring even if decorated with the most stunning ornaments.
Violence is ugly, manipulation is hideous, there is nothing pleasant about having a rotten heart and bad intentions, hypocrisy turns what is beautiful into what is simply repulsive.
On the other hand, a warm hug and a kind smile even from a very ugly person is pure splendor and gorgeousness, an act of love and respect vibes and resonates with beauty. Beauty is a way of being a full human, to rise above and beyond the pettiness of animal instincts and savage behavioral pattern.
We all lean towards what is fine-looking; we all like to look at what gives our eyes comfort and hunger to feel more alive and more divine. And what can possibly give us that leap of sublime and that dose of a higher existence than a beautiful heart? No physical beauty alone can subsist and take over the beauty of a well designed and full Mind.
Human beings have always longed to beautify the places they occupied, we want to make our homes more beautiful, our streets, our countries, we are the makers of beautiful things and the consumers of exquisiteness, how is it that we crave beauty so much and yet walk on the path that drifts us further away from achieving it?
Why don’t we get more concerned in beautifying our hearts, purifying our souls, detoxifying our systems from all the venom and toxics that infects our humanity? When we invest our efforts and good taste in having a good grace we will reach our compassion and we will be able to enjoy the external beauty and be transformed with it in a way to have a harmony from deep within and towards the outer space we inhabit.
Let us enjoy beauty wherever it may be found, in nature, in people, in all the art produced by men in an attempt to kill away all the suffering he endures throughout the history.
Beauty is, and always will remain our salvation, our gateway from all what pulls us down to obscurity and monstrosity; it will elevate and educate our senses so that we can climb our mounts of selfishness and any deteriorated attributes that make us less humans and more savages.
Beauty
By Lina Hanna
AUTHOR LINA HANNA
FASHION LAWS
ARE YOU AN
OUTLAW ?
ARE YOU AN
OUTLAW ?
The art of dressing up, the gift of arousing the body and the mind, that fine taste that separate wearing clothes to highlighting the person who is wearing them, is called fashion, the craze of mixing and matching fabrics with patterns and colors to create another skin so we can cover our skin while loving to be more covered and less naked!
An elevated logic of sublime appeal in appearances, of looking with the hands of eyes, a hand that wants to feel the tissue that the eye looks at! But fashion is not style! Fashion is an ongoing motion towards change and inventing and re-inventing!
An elevated logic of sublime appeal in appearances, of looking with the hands of eyes, a hand that wants to feel the tissue that the eye looks at! But fashion is not style! Fashion is an ongoing motion towards change and inventing and re-inventing!
FASHION LAWS
Style is giving fashion an identity, bringing it to its eternal to life; it is the infinity of a trendy persona, someone might dress to impress, someone else might dress to kill other’s show off! A woman wears to satisfy her need for extravagance while another woman wears to kill another woman’s arrogance; in the same manner our clothes can be messengers to our attitudes, it can express anger, anguish, harmony, contradiction, it can portray peace or convey war against ourselves or the world we inhabit.
Outfits can put into words to those muted screams in our souls, when in mourning we wear black, what is a bride without her gown, what is a priest or a religious figure without his uniform, a person in disguise, his distinctive trait would be lost if he does not dress the uniform that represents him in his attribute to the world who is seeing him! And while some abide by the fashion laws others have the courage to strike and make their own mode, these people are not afraid to defy everything that is up to the minute, they dare to bring back from the past and re ignite the flame underneath the ashes, they have a law of their own, they add a flavor to the right of being selective and daring. They stand on the edge and enjoy the view, they walk with confidence and they stand out from the crowds! There is no harm in fashion revolt so long as we always stay true to who we are behind any kind of clothing or covering!
Outfits can put into words to those muted screams in our souls, when in mourning we wear black, what is a bride without her gown, what is a priest or a religious figure without his uniform, a person in disguise, his distinctive trait would be lost if he does not dress the uniform that represents him in his attribute to the world who is seeing him! And while some abide by the fashion laws others have the courage to strike and make their own mode, these people are not afraid to defy everything that is up to the minute, they dare to bring back from the past and re ignite the flame underneath the ashes, they have a law of their own, they add a flavor to the right of being selective and daring. They stand on the edge and enjoy the view, they walk with confidence and they stand out from the crowds! There is no harm in fashion revolt so long as we always stay true to who we are behind any kind of clothing or covering!
FASHION LAWS
You like the gothic look so be it, take delight in your choice; you like the classical look indulge! You like to change looks spoil yourself life is too short! If you are itching for a little excitement and you like to be picky and flirty just muddle up and go with your current mood!
Do not be afraid to have fun with garments, just dare to be yourself as much as you dare to be different!
Walk in the fiesta of colors and patterns for they are the invincible summer in the fashion seasons; it is the celebration of eternal youth and the pump of blood in the vein of life!
Be an outlaw and break all the rules! Fashion up your world and wear your dreams, your fears, and your sins and make sure you do it with style!
Do not be afraid to have fun with garments, just dare to be yourself as much as you dare to be different!
Walk in the fiesta of colors and patterns for they are the invincible summer in the fashion seasons; it is the celebration of eternal youth and the pump of blood in the vein of life!
Be an outlaw and break all the rules! Fashion up your world and wear your dreams, your fears, and your sins and make sure you do it with style!
FASHION LAWS
BY LINA HANNA HANNA
Through my eyes Novel from Cheryl COLE
CHERYL COLE
Explore how conflict changed the men, women and children who tell their own stories here.
Explore how it shaped their feelings about who they are and where they belong.
Their stories tell of human cruelty and kindness, prejudice and patriotism, adversity, determination, and the fight for equality and identity.
Read about the impact of being uprooted from home and family, of encountering the violence of conflict, of the desire to help, and the fight to build a new life.
Alex and the Golden Phoenix : Search for Gold
AUTHOR SAID MAROUN
On June 12, 2010, was held a ceremony in the Unesco palace to announce the winners of the Cedar Literary Award 2010. The Author SAID MAROON won first in the novel writing comeptition in the english section with his novel " Alex and the Golden Phoenix : Search for Gold " which is the first volume of the saga " Alex and the Golden Phoenix ". Maroon who was an architect, and a talented artist, made huge impression on the judges in the competition, with both talent and fine expression. The book is to be published in Lebanon, via Oceans-Melibee, but also in London, UK, France, Belgium and many other european countries. An interview with the author is coming soon, and until then, the Haus Magazine advices all devoted readers to get the book asap, and to devore it! Delicious! Here is a synopsis.
" Thousands of years ago there was a strange bird known as the Phoenix, medium-sized feathers made of Gold and unspeakable beauty. This Phoenix lived for a long time when it died, and its body burnt into ashes, then returns to life in a strange magical way, each time increasing its beauty and becoming more and more fascinating. This bird had waited for a long time for someone to bring him back to life, after long time of relaxation, because the new generation of this world forgot myths. His wish came true; the day that a boy called Alex came along with the curiosity of young passionate children.... "
" Thousands of years ago there was a strange bird known as the Phoenix, medium-sized feathers made of Gold and unspeakable beauty. This Phoenix lived for a long time when it died, and its body burnt into ashes, then returns to life in a strange magical way, each time increasing its beauty and becoming more and more fascinating. This bird had waited for a long time for someone to bring him back to life, after long time of relaxation, because the new generation of this world forgot myths. His wish came true; the day that a boy called Alex came along with the curiosity of young passionate children.... "
AUTHOR SAID MAROUN
HAUS AUTUMN THEME
