From the garden with my cat-friends - 19th of August

From the garden with my cat friends, this afternoon. The size of the video was too large to upload directly here, so you can watch it on Google Drive on this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CLQtpQj-2Nifus6BJLjTEzGbSjL0qdvb/view?usp=drive_link

 

"Open letters to an Earl"

You may read this private, password-protected post called "Open letters to an Earl". However choosing to read it is your responsibility. It is a very intense post, giving the access key to other platforms you did not know existed. So if you do not want to know about them, it's your right - do not open this private post. If you choose to open and read it, you do not have the right to discuss of it with anyone, including me, as my aim is not to hear criticism, but rather to make Red-Oak feel that his current position of silence is absolutely not sustainable, and that I will absolutely not give up on this quest. On the contrary, I will carry on with this quest to help Annelies heal from her childhood trauma, and obtain Justice for what happened to me, and I am ready to write even stronger words than I have written till now (but I do not want to directly hurt the reputation of Red-Oak, that is the only limit that I've set). This is the link to the private post, you may choose to read, or not to read: https://amchitdordrecht.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/open-letters-to-an-earl/

  

From the garden this evening - 18th of August

From the garden around our house this evening... 

Preparing the first green olives

My jogging along the sea today... 

While preparing the first olives from the olive trees I take care of. It's an antique way of preparing the first green olives, beating them with a pebble before placing them in a jar with water, raw salt and olive oil. In that way, their bitterness fades away faster, in just two weeks. (video and photo taken by Golden-Feather, my sister).

And this is a video taken by the Wiseman-of-the-Sea (my father) from Ehmej, a village in the mountains above Amchit, where he and my brother participated to a 10 km marathon today. They saw a shepherd with his goats along the trail...

The pictures are also taken by my father...

While swimming - 16th of August

Dear friends,

Today there is no daily video, because the one I recorded is private for the family of Annelies.

But those are a picture and a very short video taken by my father of some of the vegetables / fruits I picked from the garden I plant, while I swam, today.

 

As I said many times already, I will not be silenced by Red-Oak, even if he is an Earl. I will obtain justice and recognishment. And my silence on this blog means that I am in the meanwhile working on several interesting projects, to cut a door in the wall of silence Red-Oak has forcefully surrounded the entire family of Annelies with.

While picking mango fruits

While picking a mango fruit from the garden by the sea... In swimsuit because it was still quite hot... Today was the feast of the Holy Virgin, an important feast for Christians, in Lebanon, a national holiday. That's why we went to the family garden by the sea... 

And that's me with part of my harvest today...

What I do with the organic wastes

As I do not compress my videos as much as I used to, to ensure a better quality, the video today was too large to be uploaded here. For that reason, you can watch it on this Google Drive link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E4Ex89qaQ_WDndRQmVpAgt-z6nfhD7vF/view?usp=drive_link

I show you in this video what I do with the organic wastes!  

From the garden, in front of our house - 13th of August

From the garden, in front of our house...

 

From the lower part of the garden - 12th of August

From the lower part of the garden today... 

From the garden at dusk

From the garden at dusk... 

And these are two other pictures with part of my harvest, from two days ago, taken by the Wiseman-of-the-Sea:

From the garden by the sea - 10th of August

From the garden by the sea, today... 

And that's me with a little part of my harvest this weekend...

Directly from the beach at sunset

Directly from the beach at sunset... 

I'm not wearing a shirt because I was doing my jogging and it was too warm (there is a one week long heat wave here...)

 

From the rooftop of our house - 8th of August

From the rooftop of our house... 

From the garden - 7th of August

From the garden today... 

In front of the persimmon tree

In front of the persimmon tree...

I believe that Annelies has expressed her will very clearly, Red-Oak. You need to listen to your daughter's pain related to her childhood wound. You need to understand her, and to open her heart to her, and to her mother, Green-Rose. If someone external to this story reads all the literature that is publicly available on the internet, I think that this is what they will clearly understand from all the blogs and platforms. 

You're the only one who is still not understanding, Red-Oak. Or perhaps you are understanding, but you prefer to continue believing into your lies, because you're too proud to admit your faults! 

 

From the rooftop of the barnhouse - 5th of August

From the rooftop of the barnhouse... 

From the garden

From the garden today...  

"Bonus" videos

Usually we would not take videos of such ordinary moments. 

But as my family knows about all this story, and support me in my quest, they sometimes make the effort to capture those ordinary moments in order to send them to the family of Annelies, and show to them we are human beings, as they are, with culture, with dreams, with goodness, etc.

Yesterday there was very loud music coming from our neighbors in our garden by the sea. I don't know if it was a marriage, or a birthday. But the music was super loud, and you're going to hear it in the videos. So my father found it funny to take videos of me with the music. My brother had a bit of pain in his ankle, so he did not play soccer with me.

This is me, during my soccer practice.

And this is me, jogging.

There are more videos, but those are sent privately to Red-Oak and the other familiars of Annelies.

And those pictures are taken by my sister...

From the beach

From the beach...  

Pictures of me taken by my sister

You can look on this link to the pictures of me my sister took today, in our garden by the sea. These pictures are well-representative of who I am.

https://erikzakhia.blogspot.com/2025/08/pictures-of-me-taken-in-family-land.html

 

In the family garden by the sea

In the family garden by the sea, today... 

From the rooftop of the barnhouse - 1st of August

From the rooftop of the barnhouse... 

In front of the barnhouse - 31st of July

In front of the barnhouse, I show you the progression of my raised bed of squashes and pumpkins...  

A story about mint syrup

Today I tell you a memory about mint syrup and how it relates to a memory of mine, of spending a rare moment with my maternal grandfather and my paternal great grandfather.

You can watch it directly on this Google Drive link, as its size is too large to be uploaded here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lgAex2m3Ganv-XZwkLBjf6RwunWrMMZN/view?usp=drive_link

 

From the same area of the garden one day later

From the same area of the garden one day later... 

While planting a passion fruit vine

While planting a passion fruit vine in the garden around our house... 

While preparing the arrival of my mother and my sister

Today I was preparing the arrival of my mother and my sister... 

There is much more content, pictures, videos, long emails, etc. that are private and that I share only with the family of Annelies. If you belong to the entourage of Annelies and wish to enter in contact with me, please feel free to write me, directly, or even anonymously.

Even if you write me anonymously, I will take the time to respond to you. And I will take the time to answer to all your questions and all your interrogations about this story.

Please, walk a step forward.

In front of the sea at sunset - 27th of July

In front of the sea at sunset...  

More explanations from the garden

I explain some of my present - future ideas for the garden...  

I explain my present and future ideas for the garden. Starting from 0, I harvested already 120 passion fruits from the garden around our house this year, in a forested landscape on which nobody would have ever betted. In the sense that farmers usually believe that you need a lot of sun exposure in order to grow fruits and vegetables.

I already obtained a good number of passion fruits in the last 2 years from the family garden of the sea. But from our garden around our house, I got the first fruits last year (much less than this year). And now, there are still a lot of them that are green.

My idea is to expand the passion fruits plantation in our garden to multiply by 10 the harvest in two years. I don't know if it will work, but I show you in my video how I organize the garden, and how creative I try to be, in order to allow passion fruits to climb into the giant trees we have.

I am sure that in future, universities / institutions will be interested by my research, because what I propose is an excellent way to make a land productive while mitigating global warming.

Hopefully Annelies and I will be very soon together. Hopefully we will publish our first novels very soon too. And later on, we may also have a lot of side activities. Nature, the garden, the construction of ecosystems and the integration of ecosystems in sustainable towns can be one dimension on which to work.

While cooking - 24th of July

Today I recorded my video while cooking... The size of the video is too large to be uploaded here (more than 100 MB), so you can watch it on this google drive link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V_3Hruo4IvreI7beNHp8S9Owl_4D5i4O/view?usp=drive_link

For long I stopped enjoying my life, and I also stopped listening to music, because of what had happened with Annelies, because of the unfairness of the behavior of her entourage toward me, and in particular Red-Oak. 

Because of the harsh judgements, manifested directly or indirectly through very disparaging acts and behaviors, in particular I am making reference to you, Little-Flute. I am a sensitive soul and anything of the kind is enough to hurt me and deeply injure me. 

I wanted to do the good, and was treated in a tremendous way, never having a chance to explain myself, to say my version of facts. 

I felt a deep disgust toward the world, and I just wanted to hide, to disappear from any social circle, to retreat in nature where plants and animals, contrarily to human beings, do not lie. 

But when I understood that Annelies was a victim, the victim of the rigidity, lack of empassion, and devastating divorce of her parents, I pardoned her in my heart. That is why, I gradually reconnected myself to the digital world, and this is where I found the strength to start asking justice, for myself...... and for her. 

I understood that it was something Annelies could not do, trapped inside her pain, trapped into her tremendous fears, of what had happened when she was only 7 years old. And I understood that Annelies wanted me to help her, and had been waiting for me to give my help. Only, being a very complex situation, I had to give my help the right way, by giving her all the time and space to heal. In 2017 - 2018, Annelies already was asking for my help, but back then, I did not know how to give my help, because every brush to her childhood wound brought an immense amount of pain in her. I had to avoid the slightest brush, and I ignored how to do that back then. 

Also, the circunstances were not yet the right ones back then. The positive aspect of all what happened, of the unfairness that was committed against me, is that, despite themselves, Red-Oak and his clan gave me a right to talk, and to be listened to. As they well know by now that a mistake was committed against me, they're all very careful, because they know that despite being a foreigner and having less rights than they do in the Netherlands, the Law is from my side this time, as I can prove that Red-Oak committed an unfairness and lied to the house of justice of the Earldom. And I can prove it by revealing many personal, intimate stories about Red-Oak that Annelies wrote me about.

That is not my aim, of course, but I am conscious that it's been my protective shield during these 22 months of one-sided correspondence with Red-Oak and family. The fact that I know so many intimate stories about them is already the proof that Red-Oak lied, as he claimed that a very shallow acquaintance existed between his daughter and I. And he did so publicly. 

That is how, with what Red-Oak did almost 7 years ago, he gave me voice to the chapter of his life and his clan. It's very unwise to hurt and harm someone in an unfair way for someone like Red-Oak who carries the title of Earl, one of the most important Earls of the Earldom. 

My intentions have always been peaceful and positive, and they still are! What I need is for you, Red-Oak, and for you, Green-Rose, and for you, Little-Flute, to believe that my intentions are positive, to believe that I am a fair person, to believe that I deserve to be heard, and to believe that I deserve your excuses. Then, and only then, we will all be able to act in the best interest of Annelies' peace of heart and happiness.

And now, as you can see, I am determined to bring the truth to light. I will tolerate this lie no longer. There are many elements that the family of Annelies will discover soon, I hope, but that, for now, I won't share publicly. 

 

From the garden - 23rd of July

From the garden today... 

Technical explanations about the garden - 22nd of July

Today I offered technical explanations about the garden and my vision of it. Trying to work with the elements, with nature, rather than against it, by being creative.

The video is too large to upload, so you can watch it directly on Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zPOJ02BOtGLYLRexdv72plJPhUSL_BFX/view?usp=drive_link

I also show some comparison of the same area of the garden with last year.

That's a video made more than one year ago, showing the same area of the garden, that I had posted on this blog in Spring 2024: https://theprinceofylliriel.blogspot.com/2024/05/a-new-raised-bed-for-little-papaya-tree.html

From the rooftop of our house - 21st of July

From the rooftop of our house...

I speak very direct words to Red-Oak!  

From the garden by the sea - 20th of July

From the garden by the sea today. The video was too large to upload here, so you can watch it on this google drive link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VosfqRjLsam3VAqkjc5wAvfI1mShq57u/view?usp=drive_link

 

From close to the beach - 19th of July

From close to the beach...  

Annelies will obtain what she is asking for

Dear Red-Oak,

Annelies will obtain what she is asking for. There is no other possible path. 

It's true that I'm very quiet and kind in 90% of my videos. But in the remaining 10% I must remind you that what you did is unacceptable. I do not tolerate the fact that you called me names. I do not accept all what happened, and the unfairness you committed against me. Because I am a loyal, forgiving person, I will not do the same with you. I will not ruin your reputation as an Earl, even though my words, reaching the right destinations, would be enough to raise a big interrogation mark about your integrity, and to halt any possibility of career advancement.

I do not want to follow that way, because that way would be called "revenge". I do not seek revenge but justice. I do not seek punishment for those who wronged me, but to be able to live in peace with my true love, without being troubled by small-minded souls like the ones I've met in the entourage of Annelies.

Annelies is calling for a reconciliation of you, dear Red-Oak, with Green-Rose, her mother. And it will happen. It will happen. You will have to pardon and to forgive: it should really not be an obligation to! Yet, in the case of people like you, who have a hardened heart, only strong words can pass through the shield you've built around you.

Soon you will have a proof of all my determination in front of your own eyes. 

There are people, Red-Oak, who did not hesitate to call your name in public, and to discredit you. Have you noticed that I never did that? Do you appreciate my ethics?

That's strange, right? For you, and all your clan (yes, a clan!) being classified as "libanish" (or however you spell it) was the worst insult. Yet, this libanish is revealing to be more ethical and moral than many Dutch citizens. 

Strange, right?

I was your perfect scapegoat. All your insatisfactions in life, all the traumas you had imposed on your daughter. You had found the thing, the person, who united your clan, through hate. The hate of me, the fear of me. 

Do you know why I call them your clan? Because they all behave as you say. There are no free minds, no free hearts. This is the difference between a Human and a robot, for instance. A Human thinks with her or his own mind, feels with her or his own heart, and decides if something is right or wrong by listening to her or his conscience. 

I have not yet seen such Human behavior being displayed by any member of your entourage. You're all as bad as those who follow blindly religious doctrines, in a destructive way. 

Your doctrine was that I was bad, and that no communication should occur with me. Your doctrine was that silence "protected" you.

But Red-Oak, you're completely unmasked. I've written you on your professional email address, even got an automatic email from you confirming that I had written to the right person, confirming by which date you would read me, and giving me even a phone number and an email address to which to write.

I have not used that phone number and that email address, because I am an ethical person, because I love Annelies, because I want to appreciate you, and because I believe in the betterment of human beings. I believe in you becoming a better person, Red-Oak. I am offering you that opportunity. Not out of weakness, but on the contrary, out of real strength, out of magnanimity. 

But there is one point on which I will not make concessions. You will have to take again the hand of Green-Rose in yours.

This is the will of Annelies, and the will of Annelies is my will. 

This is why Annelies behaved the way she did. She wanted to force you to reconcile with her mother. She found no other solution to reach that aim than committing this unfairness against me, and tempting you in participating in it.

And you plunged into this narrative, Red-Oak, and you made it yours. I was your perfect scapegoat. You had the impression that this story strengthened your position as the head of the clan. 

And you were wrong, because I'm stronger than you are. It is not physical strength I have. It is not legal power I carry. But, it is morality, sense of justice, and a pure heart capable of loving truly that make me stronger and smarter than you are, and than all the members of your clan.

Your doctrine is failing, Red-Oak. You know that, yet, as the people who are too proud to recognize a mistake, you are clinging to it. Don't be fooled by my appearant quietness in my videos. I am a very quiet, kind, compassionate person... But... I do not accept unfairness. And you will soon have of my news, with a warm salutation to each member of your clan. 

I hope that you can also appreciate my sense of humor and my irony, of being able to always find new, creative ways to write about this story, while maintaining certain limits, and yet revealing a little more of what you've done. The key words today are: clan, doctrine and scapegoat. My aim is to make you feel ashamed of what you did, and of your current foolishness.

Your daughter is not talking to you, Red-Oak. Your own daughter. That is Not a good sign about the goodness of the person you have become.

From the lower part of the garden - 17th of July

From the lower part of the garden... 

From close to the pond I built in the garden

From close to the pond... 

In the garden - 15th of July

In the garden today... 

From the garden - 14th of July

From the garden today... 

And this is a brief video of me while running, taken by my brother, yesterday.

Close to the sea with the shirt of la Fiorentina

Close to the sea with the shirt of la Fiorentina...  

From the garden by the sea - 12th of July

From the garden by the sea, today... 

From the garden - 11th of July

From the garden today...  

Jogging toward the Camping of Amchit - part 2

Today I did not record a new video, but I am instead posting the second part of my video during my jogging toward the Campus of Amchit, to show you that area of Amchit that I had not shown you before, dear Red-Oak. 

Those are a few pictures taken during my jogging.

Quetzal is the artist name of my sister... 

And that's me with Boscolino, today, from the rooftop of the barnhouse.

And a family reunion...

And that was me last weekend:

https://bsky.app/profile/erik-zakhia.bsky.social/post/3lticqsz4wc26

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Erik Zakhia

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Me and my creation... This permaculture - agroforestry garden is the fruit of my work, and my fantasy. My blog: erikzakhia.blogspot.com #writer #gardens #gardening #photography #nature #poet #poem #poetry #creative #basil #squashes #pumpkins #sunset #golden #amchit #beauty #sun #green #ray

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