Obama Stands Up for Gun Control

"They deserve a vote."

On Tuesday night President Obama demanded actions be taken to act on gun control. I appreciated his approach, because he said lets talk about reformation, lets vote on these bills, lets get the conversation going because what has been done hasn't worked. "But these proposals deserve a vote."

Remember that recent terrible shooting at a U.S. elementary school? That one really shook me and ever since I have been praying that our children become more safe in this country, if not the world. Our children shouldn't be going to school worrying about being killed, it's not right.

Obama talked about 15 year old Hadiya, who 3 weeks prior to this State of Union address was in Washington performing with her high school at President Obama's inauguration. A week later she was shot and killed in a park after school.

When will it stop? When will we make it stop.

Happy World Nutella Day!!!!

Probably one of the happiest days of the year!!! Haha, no food (okay maybe besides chili chicken) brings me more joy than Nutella. My two year old niece and I eat nutella with sliced strawberries on an english muffin every night for dessert so it's also sentimental for me:)

Hope you all treat yourself to a yummy treat of it today!:))

Lama al-Ghamdi

Such a sad story to write about but the only way to have such incredibly horrific situations stop is through becoming aware and educating ourselves.

This little 5 year old girl was raped and beaten to death by her father, a prominent Saudi preacher. In Saudi Arabia, the man was sentenced to a few months in jail and a $50,000 fine (half the usual amount because the victim was a girl). The man had confessed all that he did to his daughter including using cables and a cane to inflict injuries and was still given an almost nothing sentence.

Such a sad sad story. Thinking of this little girl today.

I pray one day females around the world will be treated with the utmost respect and kindness, I pray I get to see that day as it seems so far away.

Gandhiji's Death Anniversary

On January 30th, school kids in Chennai, India  observe Gandhiji's death anniversary. <3 Gandhi...thought this was such a neat photo!

When you...

My brother sent me this...made me LOL!!! I do pick up my Mom's calls...most of the time :-)

Fiori

Since the past couple entries have been sad ones, wanted to spread some smiles around...

enjoy these bellisimi fiori!:)))

India Gang Rape

As much as I love my Motherland, India, I am overcome with deep sadness at the country's attitude towards women.

On December 16th, a 23 year-old woman and her male friend were taking the bus from the movies in Delhi. She was gang raped for nearly an hour by 6 men, beaten with iron bars and tossed out of a moving bus onto the street.

Can you imagine? Being raped on a moving bus and no one does anything...what type of world is that? Not one made for a woman. The Indian culture needs to learn to respect its women more, to not treat them as inferior to the male species.

When my brother and I visited tombs in India, you could always tell which was for a male and which for a female because the male tomb was always higher than the female one.

I hope this tragic story awakens the people of India and helps them realize that women too are human beings, and are NOT inferior to men.