August, 2009

Emmanuelle Salberter - Member and Founder of EquiLibriumEmmanuelle Salberter, is a young woman of 40 years, she is from La Louviere, near  Brussels in Belgium (Bruxelles en Belgique.)  Her friends call her Manu and she is adept in natural resources; e.g. medicine in a global approach; but she is also well recognized by her generous gifts. Taking care of horses, suits her well.  She just loves them and will do whatever it takes to protect them.  In her quest to protect her beloved horses, she offers us some food for thought:

Did you ever imagine yourself riding a wild horse? Did you ever envy the connection the Indians of America had with their equines, riding bareback and free like the wind? Did you ever stop at the vision of a beautiful horse in a field?  Manu explained to our TW team “the reality of the domesticated horse is often different to those idyllic images and their freedom is mostly a legend rather than their ever-day life. Did you ever wonder what the actual basic needs of horses are, as written in their genes for thousands of years?  Open spaces, movement, herds, grazing…does it make sense to you?  It doesn’t to many horse owners. 

Mitra DjaliliJust after I had the pleasure of being invited to write this piece for TW, my husband Edward White who is a film composer and my producer called me to the studio to add some vocals for a track he is currently working on.  Feeling nervous but weirdly confident at the same, we worked on some very simple melodies enunciated with some oo’s and aa’s. Edward is immensely talented and I sometimes feel totally inadequate, but he is my number one fan and someday I hope to be able to perform with the likes of Hans Zimmer or with Quincy Jones.

Although I was on stage acting and singing since the age of 5, which you could argue was my musical education, I have never had any formal training.  We left Iran with nothing and had since always struggled to make a living. Dance classes which I always craved for, were just a financial impossibility. I remember being taken to one, just to appease me but that was the only one. In my teenage years, my father bought me a very old ‘untuneable’ piano which kept me going for a while.  I took some kooky piano lessons from an 85 year old woman which combined with the practically unplayable piano, did not suffice to build on my aspiration and I just gave up.

Photo: The seven innocent Baha'i “leaders,” with spouses, before their imprisonment of  May 14, 2008 in Evin prison, Iran.

(CNN) - “Iran should release seven Baha'i prisoners accused of espionage because it does not have any evidence against them,” their lawyer Shirin Ebadi (The Nobel Peace Prize 2003) told CNN on Saturday, Aug. 15. (GENEVA - BIC)  - “Our hope now is that our seven innocent co-religionists will be released on bail,” said Ms. Ala’i on Monday Aug. 17th, 2009. (TW) - Bahá'u'lláh's central message for humanity in this day is one of unity and justice. “The best beloved of all things in My sight is justice” He wrote, and “The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.” According to the Islamic government of Iran there is no room for 'no prejudice.' Will the world watch them die in the hands of their executioners, one by one? Read about their lives of service below.