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Monday, June 29, 2015

First namaz

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Yesterday in our soon to be house we did namaz for the first time. The house was still very rough around the edges and there was constructio...
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Monday, June 22, 2015

Madeleine

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Iftar today was Madeleine cookies, a kind Yusuf and Nooriya love. Yusuf is a big kid now and he does namaz with the other kids now which is ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Better

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I get a lot of time to think during Ramadan. There's so much peaceful time just sitting.  Just sit more often Taher. I've been think...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

Adjacent Possible

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My involvement with the Casualty Actuarial Society recently started.  I'm on a council tasked with changing the professions culture to ...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Hubble

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The Hubble telescope just celebrated its 25th anniversary. It's being hailed as the greatest scientific achievement. I've been readi...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

texting

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Just this week Yusuf started texting.  I'm happy to be on his shortlist of contacts:P I don't often get to check my messages duri...
Thursday, April 09, 2015

Ground Breaking

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Last week the site of my eventual home was cleared.  There used to be a house there and now it's gone.  Construction has started and no...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Focus

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I'm "going through" something that's out of my control.  I'm in my head and I'm pretty sure I'm the only pers...
Friday, March 20, 2015

Connections

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I am reminded today that there's lots of distractions and other stuff in life.  The most important things to me are connections with pe...
Monday, March 16, 2015

Man in the Mirror

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This is one of my favorite songs.  I've heard the lyrics so many times I don't think about them as much as I used to.  I read this ...
Saturday, February 14, 2015

Game of inches

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I've been reading about the criminology  Broken Windows Theory and it's made me appreciate a perspective I've tried to stay aw...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Routine

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Zahra has written about our morning routine a couple times.  It's had me thinking more and more about my routine... I have read about...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Fresh start

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This past two weeks have not been the nice and comfortable routine I've come to love.  The kids are off from school, I'm home with ...
Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Let me fix that for you

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I was drawing with Nooriya.  Mostly I was sitting with her and just spending time with her while trying to block out the rest of the world....
Saturday, November 22, 2014

Tortoise and the hare

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I've heard this story many many times over the years. It's pretty simple and I've absorbed the message a little bit more every t...
Saturday, November 01, 2014

Close call

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I had a very close call this morning. A possibly life ending moment. It's a couple hours later and my heart is still racing.  The detail...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Awesomeness Factor

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I've been reading up about positive illusions after hearing about it.  It basically means having a really good attitude about somethin...
Friday, October 17, 2014

Giving Tree

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I recently heard about a kids book called 'The Giving Tree'.  This is the Wikipidea entry . Wiki describes the plot --- The bo...
Friday, October 10, 2014

Hurry up and slow down

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Today I had an especially busy morning and I let myself get caught up in the busyness.  I rushed from here to there and back many times bot...
Friday, September 19, 2014

One more hour

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The other day Yusuf asked me why there aren't 25 hours in a day.  I explained some stuff about the sun rising and the earth spinning.  ...
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