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Saturday, October 15, 2022

Word choice

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How someone feels when they come to my house matters. I want to be responsible generally for making people feel good. That’s being human. I ...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Pay It Forward

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 I heard an interview and part of it was biographical.  The interviewer asked about regret and said something along the lines of "your ...
Friday, September 16, 2022

Dunkin

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I was having a long day and got some afternoon coffee.  My dessert coffee, DD😀.  I saw a man doing Asar namaz in the parking lot.  It looke...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Working Backward

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 There's a lot of probability in my work and a lot of potential biases.  There's very little in work or in life that's 100% cert...
Monday, August 01, 2022

Jewels

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 I feel so lucky to be here in Paris listening to Moula’s waaz relay everyday. I often wonder what took so long. I’ve thought a lot about th...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Debit Card

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 Yesterday Yusuf had a milestone.  One of those where he probably didn't give it a second thought and thinks what's the big deal and...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Picture

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 This is one of my favorite pictures. I like it so much that I have it my closet. I see it every day.  I took this picture over 20 years ago...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

Red light

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 Red is on top for a reason.  Taher, stop first. Then act/speak.
Wednesday, June 08, 2022

Luck

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It’s easy for me to fall in the trap of thinking “you get what you deserve”.  I don’t think that’s true mostly. It follows logically that “i...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

By example

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I’ve recently had the opportunity to do some volunteer stuff. It was most important to me to make the kids a part of it. I wanted to do this...
Wednesday, April 06, 2022

Activity

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It’s Ramadan again and I want to write something down. Each year I like to focus on something. Each year one of the things I like to do is j...
Saturday, March 19, 2022

Ride

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 Last night it was my good fortune to help someone out. It was raining and dark and this woman’s car was blocked. It was my friend’s mom. I ...
Saturday, March 05, 2022

Fresh Eyes

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I have this wonderful memory of sitting in Moula Ali’s roza for the first time this past year. The memory evokes what I was feeling. This ra...
Saturday, February 05, 2022

Shift

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I heard a story that was inspiring. I’ve heard the story many times before and thought I got it, but I heard it again and a different commen...
Monday, November 22, 2021

Karbala

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I was expecting our trip to be Karbala and Najaf to be spiritual and rejuvenating. No surprise it it is.  What I wasn’t expecting is that th...
Tuesday, November 09, 2021

Handstand

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Nooriya had her 6th grade social this past weekend.  It was at a gym/ninja warrior place.  Fun and physically demanding.  The physically dem...
Sunday, October 10, 2021

Evidence

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 I am reading a book and the title of the section is “Data Schmata”. The point is that data isn’t necessarily a good thing. It reminds that ...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

Intangible

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 A few weeks into the school year we got a nice email from Yusuf's math teacher.  It wasn't overly effusive, but it was very nice.  ...
Saturday, August 28, 2021

Generational Wealth

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Today I had the opportunity to help some folks with some Medicare stuff. I was very excited. I don’t often have the chance to help people us...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Generosity

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 I didn’t write this, but want to be sure to come back and read this.  — ‘I sought ‘praise’ and found it in generosity’. Amirul Mumineen’s A...
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