Bambi just discovered Mr. Nicola’s Ciconne’s superb song, filled with simplicity yet much depth, and cleverly entitled “La légèreté” [Lightness]. As always, bravo and thanks to this much talented Canadian singer from Québec!
If she may now, Bambi will take this opportunity to wish you lightness into your life, regardless of any hardship or bad day. Lightness even with your serious work, hopefully accomplished with love, care, and joy. Yes, the joy of a present pleasant moment or an attitude of childlike wonder.
Bambi will be too busy over the next couple of days. She does not want to miss the chance of wishing her American friends and neighbours (deer and humans) a Happy 4th of July!
May your long weekend be joyful… and may you always keep loving your country as you have always done. It is inspiring to Canadian deer like Bambi.
To celebrate this love, here are two songs to you. Of course, God bless America that Bambi loves as well as Mr. Joe Dassin’s L’Amérique (in French subtitled in English!).
Once again, like in an older post on the Hezbollah shown further below, Bambi will ask the same question as it applies to this extremist hate group pretending to be Christians: Since when God needs soldiers?
Another question that begs itself: Can our domestic activists do something to help the LGBTQ+ community in the Middle East?
Bambi was recently VERY honoured and excited when Ms. Leila Milki posted a comment on her blog. For those who did not read it, it goes like this:
“Hiii! I’m just finding this – thank you so much for sharing my music and for your lovely words!! I’m very glad you’ve been enjoying these videos ? please stay in touch – would love to connect!
(socials: @leilamilkimusic)”.
Bambi replied as follows:
“Wow– Ms. Leila Milki herself writing on Bambi’s blog! Bambi is SO HONOURED!! Please keep up your incredible talent and impressive work! You cannot imagine how many people reached out to Bambi to thank her for this post, expressing their admiration for your talent (from Canada, the USA, Lebanon, and Europe too) ❤️. Thank you and Bambi will keep in touch (email noted), count on her!”
Before and after the exchange shown above, comments about Ms. Milki’s beautiful voice and talent kept being posted by the readers of Bambi’s blog, as you can see in the original post at the bottom of the current one.
Very generously and kindly, Ms. Milki emailed Bambi, asking her to be sure to thank her readers on her behalf!
Well, as a gift to those readers specifically and to all of you in general, here is the latest video of Ms. Leila Milki singing Dalida’s “Helwa Ya Baladi” [“My country is beautiful”] Acapella. What a pure and beautiful voice! Please Leila Milki keep singing for us. We all appreciate your talent. Yes, our hearts are filled with love for you ❤️ !
To continue with the spirit of love, since it is still July 1st for the next three hours (until midnight), Bambi will dedicate Ms. Leila Milki’s most recent song-video to you Canada ❤️. In three days, it will be the turn of your own country, Ms. Milki, to be celebrated… and of course this song is always appropriate for our beloved birth country, Lebanon!
Of note, the Académie Française unanimously honoured OLJ!
Furthermore, this is the first time in history that this most prestigious honour is awarded to an organization (i.e., media), not an individual. Not surprising given the standards of excellence of OLJ, which “defends, since its creation, the values of democracy, pluralism, openness toward others, and dialogues among cultures and religions” (https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1304365/lacademie-francaise-honore-lorient-le-jour.html)!
“Mabrouk” and thank you L’Orient Le Jour (OLJ) for existing in Lebanon and for being a continuous beacon of light in the middle east and in our world!
Thank you Canada for being a welcoming country to deer and humans from all over the world.
Thank you mom and dad for having brought Bambi and her siblings to our beautiful country thirty-two years ago.
As Mr. Gibran Khalil Gibran wrote once about his birth country (not his USA): “Your” Lebanon is not “my” Lebanon. We can apply his piece of wisdom to Canada today. We all love it in unique ways: Those of us who are upset. Those who are grateful. Those who are feeling guilty. Those who have mixed feelings. Those who want to erase, destroy, cancel… or those who prefer to remember, learn, grow, and to move forward together in a harmonious way as much as realistically possible.
Regardless of our own ways of highlighting this day, may love and hope always shine in our hearts, minds, and on “our” Canada… regardless of how each one of us perceive the latter at a particular time of its short yet dynamic history.
For Bambi, Canada deserves to be celebrated and today is its day. So Happy Canada day to her adoptive country and to ALL her fellow citizens ❤️!
If you happen to like this song in its original English version, you may listen to it through this post by different artists, including Mr. Sinatra himself, Mr. Michael Bublé, and Mr. Omar Kamal. The last two versions are dedicated you dear Jacinthe, as you appreciate their voices!
Now, if you happen to know and also like Mr. Michel Sardou’s great French version, entitled “Comme d’abitude [As Usual]”, you will find it below. Bambi will offer it to all the Francophones and Francophiles of the world.
Recently, Bambi discovered a superb Arabic version (Lebanese dialect), thanks to Ms. Aline Lahoud; singing it mainly in her mother tongue, along with the Spanish version at the end. Mind you, she is still unsure to whom to dedicate this one. Maybe to all the readers of this blog who appreciate the beauty of this language?
Finally, Bambi will also share with you two very beautiful versions, one in German (Danke to Ms. Mirelle Mathieu!) and the other in Japanese (Arigato to Mr. Fuse Akira) If she may, Bambi would like to dedicate the first to Fatma, Achim, and Felix (Dr. Baerlocher), if they happen to be reading this post. As for the second song, she will of dedicate it to you Bente ❤️ and Nicolas ❤️!
Dr. Patrick Provost is a Full Professor of Microbiology, Infectious diseases and Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine of the Université Laval. He is an established researcher at the CHU de Québec Research Center/CHUL Pavilion (https://www.crchudequebec.ulaval.ca/en/research/researchers/patrick-provost/).
According to Libre Media (https://libremedia.ca/article/affaire-patrick-provost-le-quebec-a-la-merci-des-interets-prives), “for twenty years, he has been running an RNA research laboratory. He has published almost 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications. His research work on the role of messenger RNA in gene expression is one of the 10 discoveries of the year 2003 by the magazine Québec Science and the five discoveries of the year 2021 by the daily Le Soleil.“
Before Quebecor withdrew its last text from all its media, Professor Patrick Provost was suspended by the Université Laval for comments he made in December 2021 on the vaccination of children. Can you imagine the level of censorship in our collectively insane times? A scientist, expert in the field, cannot express a scientific opinion or share any research findings that may challenge an apparently merely politically-driven health narrative. Is Québec (and Canada) “at the mercy of private interests” to that extent, as raised by Libre Media?
From the interview above, we can read the following powerful statement by Professor Provost:
“I had not seen this climate coming. […] I would never have thought in my life that I would one day have to fight for my rights and freedoms in a country like Canada. I was shocked to see how people gave up their rights and freedoms because they were afraid”.
As reported in the above article, and to end with a note of hope, Professor Provost seems to be relieved because a growing number of Canadians “have a thirst for truth and openness”. Indeed, and to borrow his own words again: “in recent days, I have received dozens of messages of support and it is still encouraging”.
Good for him! She does not know about you, but Bambi stands with Professor Provost and with his right to academic freedom and freedom of expression! Isn’t Québec’s latest bill precisely meant to protect this right (as previously posted by Bambi)?
She does not know about you but Bambi loves after-sunset moments in life: The end of a day mixed with the promise of a new one. This is why she was happy to discover this picture, which was tweeted by journalist Roula Douglas earlier today. Thanks to the latter for sharing the view from her balcony with the world.
To conclude this brief post, first here is Ms. Douglas’ picture for you. Second, here is a song dedicated to this moment in Roula’s life (when she took her picture): Ironically for Bambi, it is entitled “Ne laissez pas le soleil se coucher” [“Do not let the sun go down“] :).
Bambi went to bed late yesterday after reading about the tragic news from Oslo. May everyone’s memory be eternal. Of course, even without mortality thank Goodness, there is also sad news about intolerance in the world, including Lebanon. Intolerance of others. Intolerance of other beliefs or opinions or ways of living (which makes her think of Oslo’s tragedy again).
Well, perhaps to forget about all this and keep alive the mood of celebration of pure love she has been in all day long yesterday (thanks to her friends and congrats to them ❤️❤️ ), a song is coming to her mind now. It is about a flower in our imagination. You can decide what type of flower it is and what you wish it would represent for you. Perhaps this superb Classical Arabic melody is meant to be romantic? If you wish, you may imagine it to be the flower of family, friendship, love with a big or small L, open-mindedness, and respect of others. The flower of authenticity, kindness, and of humanity. You choose since our thoughts are and will always be free in our own mind at least.
In this musical post, Bambi is referring to the song of Mr. Farid El Atrash, this Egyptian-Syrian artistic legend (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farid_al-Atrash). He would have surely been VERY proud of Ms. Amal Murkus had he been still alive.
Bambi is so happy she just discovered you Ms. Murkus. What a voice. What a talent, both yourself and your musicians. Thank you for this moment!
