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Monthly Archives: April 2008
Left Behind
The house is large, very large. My mom and I hear each other’s every movement, sometimes each other’s breathing. I never noticed echoes before, but now, dishes echo, books thud, floors sing under footsteps, and closing doors startle the senses. … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Memoir
Tagged Death, Family, father, grieving, Heaven, life after death
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Fitna Commentary
At the risk of exposing myself as naive and unsophisticated, I would like to ask readers to explain the Qur’anic verses used in the Fitna flim. Please don’t defend the situation by saying that the Bible has comparable verses. It does, … Continue reading
Definition of a Photograph
A photograph is like a particle of time. It is an instant within an existence, a stolen second along a continuum that was never meant to be disrupted. It is silence within sound, equilibrium within vertigo. form without function. It is ultimately a … Continue reading
Spring Cleaning
Spring, and inspiration from http://www.uniquemuslimah.wordpress.com has encouraged me to continue the project I started recently, the project of removing clutter from my bedroom, in order to create a serene space. This morning I tackled the three boxes of photographs that have … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Memoir, Saudi Arabia, Travel
Tagged cleaning, clutter, photography, serenity, soul, Walt Whitman
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New Theme
Since I can no longer manage the original theme, thanks to WordPress’s “new and improved” dashboard, I am trying a new one.
If Worry Could Fix Things…
One day last year, while my parents were vacationing, I ignored a leak from the bathroom on the second floor of their home. A day later, the leak exploded and drenched two walls of the kitchen downstairs. I developed a … Continue reading
A Travel Secret
You go to the museums and the tombs and the ruins and the statues because everyone else does, because these places are famous, because you’ve seen pictures of them all your life, because the tours focus upon them, because these … Continue reading
A Walk on the Wild Side
Before I went to Saudi Arabia in 1986 to work at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital, I bought a small book of Arabic phrases. The language, with its strange guttural sounds not made in English, and its curvy script read … Continue reading
Haiku
Sitting in the Grand Mosque at Mecca one mild spring morning, I listened to the omnipresent birds as they flitted above and around the Kaaba, singing their birdsong. Only birds talk in the Haram. Humans pray, meditate, and bask in the beauty … Continue reading
Walls
I squinted at white marble walls everywhere, as they reflected the brilliance of a Riyadh morning sun. Set at various angles, they somehow joined five separate buildings together in one geometrically shaped compound. Each building gave access to its … Continue reading
Posted in Saudi Arabia, Writing
Tagged Cross-Cultural Communication, culture, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, society, walls
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