Beyond The Horizon

I was so lucky to stay in a friend's house at the beginning of my stay in India. As far as I remember we stayed almost a month in his house. Our friend and his parents were so kind to us. Our friend was an excelent cook in fact...He was a cook as his professional... Imagine me how I went crazy for great Indian recepies each and every day...It was great fun and experience... I will share some simple but so delicious recepies of him...Thank you Prasad:) You are a great friend... By the way prasad means the food offered to Gods & Goddess in ındia. Here we go for one of my favoroite one... I write in Indian-Turkish way...I mean some writings of the words would be in Turkish... Kanda-Poha Pressed riced (Poha) or just simply boiled rice (1 bowl for each person) One medium onion One medium tomato 1/4 tea spoon Turmeric Powder 1/2 tea spoon Cumin Seed 1/2 tea spoon mustard seed salt lemon fresh coriander (I LOVE IT) Green Chili (if you like hot ones) 2-...

More than 20 years ago I was in a picnic with some bunch of people... Those days were my ''green days''... After the picnic I was not happy with the rubbish was spread around and suggested to collect it ... As I remember people were having fun with the idea...They were saying there were more serious problems for us such as wars, drugs, labour rights etc...Surely I was aggreed with all these facts ...But I could not simply bare us to ''polute'' the land ... Nevertheless after some negotiations we cleaned the area:) I said to people so that the enviromental issues will be our first priority after 20 years... So here we are... Birds are dying, hard to find clean water & air , foods are contaminated, lots of natural hazards etc....You know the story... 60 years ago world population was Billion 2.5 and now Bio 7... We consume crazyly ...If all of us consume like so called American sytle we need 4-5 more world...This is not my quote but ...

When I was out with some friends few days ago I remembered my fascinating visits to Ephesus which I like to share here...   I visited the land with an Indian Yogi friend in mid 90's... Those days we were so young and not very much ''wise'' as this old man... After we got out from our car he very calmly removed his shoes and explained to us so that he wanted to walk in the ruins of Ephesus with bare feet... He said '' He could feel the energy/vibration of this land, people lived there ''... I remember we looked each other with wide open eyes with my friend...Vow... Than he did it... If everyhing is energy and if there is no lineer time than I should easily say he was just walking in the streets of real Ephesus in those days... He knew more than us about Ephesus infact... This ruin is near by Mother Mary house ...They are all in the town named Selçuk/İzmir. He explained us Mother Mary also came to Ephesus with one of Christ's disciple...I...

When I watched ''Eat Pray Love'' which Julia Roberts was the heroen I felt just like I was watching my life on the screen...I ate lots of things when I was wacthing the film too... I burst in to laughings sometimes and also cried too... It was like a therapy for me:) Kind of a way to emotional freedom... Art has really great inspiration influence on people's evolution... Especially Indian Wedding ceremony got me deeply...I re-member-ed... One should definitly attend an Indian Wedding ceremony once in their life... It is one of the most meanful, colorful ,shinning ,joyful, heartfull wedding experience I beleive... Hindu Wedding ceremony in fact... I want to share my feelings and observations about this ceremony now... This marriage took place in the beatiful land named Goa in India. Goa has great beaches and climate... It was December 1996 ...It seems ages ago... Very early in the morning sister in law of the bride and her women friends came ...

I was living in India from 1999 to 2000 ...I had a diary than ...I feel the right time has arrived...I want to share my story about ''Mother India'' as they say...Land of colors, music, joy, legends, frienship, tolerance, romance, flowers, rivers, dance... I will share my experiences , observations and my feelings... You will find me in some music concerts, yoga seminars, cooking experiences , traveling , shopping in local language , watching the great sky, running from snakes...Also I will share my inner talks... Surely I will share some Indian recepies , travel tips and few words for local language ... First Visit in March 1995 (This part is not fromd diary) I was following a guru and I attened a yoga seminar in Delhi. We were seven ladies from Turkey. One was ex pat from Germany. When we landed the airport there was a very stong disinfectant smell... I do not know if it is same...Nevertheless you get used to after some time and eventhough you start to ...

She was having a close relation with nature since her childhood. She was born in the house which had great garden. She was preparing the garden for spring every year. All day she was working in the garden with full of love and passionate. Cutting old pieces of the plants, cleaning the soil from wild plants, aerating the soil, watering the new plants ... Eventhough she was a little girl her heart was full of love and dedication for the nature...Although she was getting tired by working all day she was feeling complete silence , peace and satisfaction in her heart by doing this ritüel. It was kind of worshiping to nature or honouring the nature with her soul . Nature was honouring her soul indeed...She was peacefully living in her childhood self world in some sence. In her garden there were two big pine trees. She was imagining one of them as mother pine tree and the other as daughter pine tree. She was telling stories about them to her friends... One day her family decided to give th...