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The Way I See It #21

Most mornings, even as a visitor here, I make my own coffee. On this Sunday morning, however, fresh from church, I allowed myself an early morning stop at a nearby Starbucks.

I don’t know if they are doing this in Kuwait, but here, I saw a quote on the side of my Grande, non-fat, no whip Mocha:

“People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world’s diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us precious oportunities to recognize ourselves in others.”

Youssou N’Dour
Musician

August 25, 2008 - Posted by | Uncategorized

11 Comments »

  1. Wouldn’t it be grand if people would just stop killing each other over such things?

    mimfoy's avatar Comment by mimfoy | August 25, 2008 | Reply

  2. mimfoy :

    people wouldnt be people if that happens , they will be ANGLES

    daggero's avatar Comment by daggero | August 25, 2008 | Reply

  3. Mimfoy – ain’t it the truth. And think how hard it is, sometimes, just to tolerate the person working next to you.

    Daggero 🙂 Acute angles? obtuse angles? Or . . . ANGELS!

    intlxpatr's avatar Comment by intlxpatr | August 25, 2008 | Reply

  4. I love it…They didn’t do that in Kuwait…I miss reading them on my starbucks cups…

    shopa's avatar Comment by shopa | August 25, 2008 | Reply

  5. No they still use the plain white ones with the logo

    I like the Caribou one… it goes something like: Life is too short, might as well stay awake for it

    Ansam's avatar Comment by Ansam | August 25, 2008 | Reply

  6. Shopa – I’m embarrassed to say I haven’t noticed before.

    Ansam – they don’t use the Christmas one at Christmas in Kuwait, either. 🙂 The least they could do would be to design some special Ramadan cups!

    intlxpatr's avatar Comment by intlxpatr | August 26, 2008 | Reply

  7. Angels , what’s in an E

    🙂

    daggero's avatar Comment by daggero | August 26, 2008 | Reply

  8. LOL, Daggero. I hesitated even to tease you about it, but I figured you could take it.

    intlxpatr's avatar Comment by intlxpatr | August 26, 2008 | Reply

  9. I would love to see this on our cups here in Kuwait. Nice words.

    btw – whilst we don’t get these (nor the Ramadan ones) we do indeed get the Christmas red cups.

    Happy travels

    Bu Yousef's avatar Comment by Bu Yousef | August 30, 2008 | Reply

  10. Many thanks, Bu Yousef. I came in on one of the Kuwait Family Expresses – 80% children between 8 months and 2 years, LOL!

    intlxpatr's avatar Comment by intlxpatr | August 30, 2008 | Reply

  11. 🙂

    Bu Yousef's avatar Comment by Bu Yousef | August 31, 2008 | Reply


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