Today in Beirut (Photo: Emily O'Dell)
Life is an island, rocks are its desires, trees its dreams, and flowers its loneliness,
and it is in the middle of an ocean of solitude and seclusion.
Your life, my friend, is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness and far away in its compassion and hidden in its secrets and mysteries…
— Khalil Gibran
