{"id":33306,"date":"2025-10-12T13:12:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T16:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=33306"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:54:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T16:54:55","slug":"happy-canadian-thanksgiving-from-the-skies-all-the-way-to-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/happy-canadian-thanksgiving-from-the-skies-all-the-way-to-beirut\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Canadian Thanksgiving… from the skies all the way to Beirut!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bambi is grateful for the present moment, today more than ever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for you, dear readers, Happy Thanksgiving from the bottom of the heart. Whether your celebrate Canada’s Thanksgiving or not, Bambi thanks you for your time each time you read her blog and for your continuous support. This being said, heartfelt warm regards to Greta (with much positive vibes and love \u2764\ufe0f!) as well as to Aline\/Nabil et al. and to Mustapha and Myriam. Thank you \u2764\ufe0f for your kindness with Bambi and her spouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This brief post includes a few pictures and a brief video taken by Bambi yesterday evening (or was it this morning?) during a 24hour-long trip from Atlantic Canada to the Middle East. If you are one of her cousins or childhood friends living in Beirut, you understand now that she is geographically closer to you. This for four more nights only. This trip was a last minute one. She sadly did not have the time to breath to share her travels plans. She sends your her love through this post \u2764\ufe0f.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To come back to the trip again, with its three airplanes, it is always heart-warming for Bambi to see an Air Canada airplane close to the Middle East Airlines (Air Liban), like in Europe. Additionally, upon her arrival to her final destination in the Lebanese capital, it was cool to see, among the passengers, a fan of the “Montreal Canadiens” [Les Canadiens de Montr\u00e9all”]: ). Long live Canada’s hockey teams, professional and junior ones! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the spirit of Thanksgiving [minus the turkey : )], and before sharing the pictures and video, this post starts with a handwritten Arabic note of Mr. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)’s most inspiring prayers by Bambi when she was a child. Many thanks to Antoine (Bambi’s dad) for having typed this poem for her a few years ago . This copy, which is attached to the wall in her office at home back in Sackville, has inspired her during hardship. MANY thanks now to Roula (Bambi’s thoughtful sister) for giving her the original, which was a childhood gift from Bambi to their late mom \u2764\ufe0f. It is her sweet gesture that partly inspired this post. Despite the many years separating her from her childhood, Bambi still knows Tagore’s poem by heart. Who knows? Maybe she has a good memory? Or she had been a diligent student in elementary school? Regardless, she was surely blessed with amazing teachers :). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy Thanksgiving again! Bonne Action de gr\u00e2ce!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Tagore’s prayer in English.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Tagore’s original poem in Bengali, an Eastern Indo-Aryan language.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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A picture taken by Roula and shared with Bambi in
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A picture taken by Bambi in the past 24 hours.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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A picture taken by Bambi in the past 24 hours.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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A picture taken by Bambi in the past 24 hours.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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A picture taken by Bambi in the past 24 hours.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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A picture taken by Bambi in the past 24 hours.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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A picture taken by Bambi in the past 24 hours.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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A picture taken by Bambi in the past 24 hours.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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A picture taken by Bambi in the past 24 hours.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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A picture taken by Bambi in the past 24 hours.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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A picture taken by Bambi in the past 24 hours.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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A picture taken by Bambi in the past 24 hours.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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A picture taken by Bambi in the past 24 hours.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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