Broken Bangles: The Soul of Humanity is Broken

  Scents affect us deeply and more than we think they do. The scents we experience in our childhood leave an indelible mark in our minds. What is in a Scent? The season's first rain gushes down. The Earth emits the lovely fragrance of wet soil. We are enamoured and find ourselves longing for all things good. A long-forgotten scent suddenly evokes a memory of a place or someone. An exquisitely rare yet familiar scent makes us realise that a milky pine has bloomed. How many times a day does a scent evoke an emotion in us? Remember how aromas deeply stimulate memories and emotions. The Scents and Our Lives Unlike other sensory organs, the nose provides a highly nuanced experience that cannot be easily recorded, defined, or deciphered. Of course, we can always write down those experiences but could end up missing the essence. Scents surround us all the time but we cannot record them for posterity. Hence, we make perfumes, scented candles, and potpourri to capture and re-exper...

Naeema Mea'bed, a Palestinian woman in Gaza, opened Gaza’s first cat cafe , "MEOW Cat Cafe", in August 2023. Reuters cited her telling their reporter that she wanted to bring joy and pet awareness to the people constrained to the open prison of Gaza.  The cafe was fully cat-themed. Offering fourteen resident cats’ company, cat posters on the walls, cat perches, cat swings, a children’s play area, and more, this cafe was a complete feline experience for families, especially children. The breeds in the cafe included Persian cats, Turkish Angoras, and hybrids.  The cafe charged $1.30 per hour for the feline experience. On Sundays, long queues waited in front. Naeema Mea'bed told the press covering the story that she had a passion for cats from childhood. Naeema used to say that cats were natural antidepressants.  Since the Israel-Gaza war had started only two months after the cafe was opened, in October 2023, nothing was heard of Naeema Mea'bed and her cats on the ne...