The Beekeeper of Aleppo

by Christy Lefteri

Afra’s soul was as wide as the fields and desert and sky and sea and river that she painted, and as mysterious.

But in Syria there is a saying: inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know.

Where there are bees there are flowers, and where there are flowers there is new life and hope.

Sometimes I think that if I keep walking, I will find some light, but I know that I can walk to the other side of the world and there will still be darkness. It’s not like the darkness of the night, which also has white light from the stars, from the moon. This darkness is inside me and has nothing to do with the outside world.

Yuanfen was a mysterious force that causes two lives to cross paths in a meaningful way.

Sometimes we create such powerful illusions, so that we do not get lost in the darkness.