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The Blog of Innocence is a chronicle of essays and meditations. I also post about outstanding art and illustration on the web. I'm the editor of Escape into Life, arts and culture magazine.
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The Month of July

Mahbubur Rahman, Time WarpThe Month of JulyWritten by Basel Al-Aswad, the father of Escape into Life founder, Chris Al-AswadThirty-two years ago on July 16th, 1979, I received a most special gift, a son. Little did I know this gift would not last the rest of my lifetime. On July 27th, 2010, mother earth took back her precious gift leaving me stunne..

Posted on 16 July 2011 | 8:56 am

Escape Into Chris - Father's Day Special

June 20, 1993 – Father’s DayLoving, living, and giving are three gifts which you continue to give me each day. A blanket, you are, which holds me at night and frees me in the day, and this is important because a holder is not a keeper. You will hold until I grow up, the greatest gift I could ask for. And this seems odd, because I ask for too mu..

Posted on 19 June 2011 | 11:24 am

Escape Into Chris - Entry 22

WinkWinter 2006 – Normal, ILLast night at Borders I picked up a book by Osho about aloneness and after reading the last four chapters of the book, my perceptive on my current state changed dramatically. Aloneness according to Osho is a gift, not something I should run from. Ever since I started reading the Art of Seduction, I got it in my head th..

Posted on 21 May 2011 | 2:02 pm

Escape Into Chris - Entry 21

Stefano UnterthinerEarly 2007- Normal, IL10 minutes before work, I’m sitting in the front hall of Heartland College, eating my apple. A man, middle-aged, wearing a sport jacket and a baseball cap with a briefcase, says hello to me in a placid tone. He stands looking out the window and then comes and sits by me. “What a glorious day” he says. ..

Posted on 15 May 2011 | 5:46 pm

In Memory of Rosalind D. Al-Aswad

The Swan, Rosalind Al-AswadChristopher Al-Aswad’s Journal Entry – March 14, 2003My mother died on March 13, 2003. She died so peacefully, is what I told my friends. I said she died without resistance. And that’s how I want to live my life, without resistance. Easing up into the ceiling, without resistance. Sliding into the sky, without resist..

Posted on 8 May 2011 | 11:16 am