Driven by curiosity’s sake.
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On Red Books, and the Fear of Losing One’s Faith
Books can be a dangerous thing. Its not all that uncommon for me to be told that I shouldn’t be reading X book, or to be asked “Why are you reading that?” in a manner that implies that I shouldn’t be wasting my time reading a certain book. How can books be so dangerous?… Read more
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Help- My Shins Are Dying
I have been here before, but this time it seems like its much much worse then it was before. My shins, they feel like living death. I can’t explain the pain I feel in them, and its a pain that won’t go away. Even after applying the treatments I have collected over the years to… Read more
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On Reading Lists
Two years go I realized I was missing something in my life, my passion had been stunted by years of busy-bee-ness. So I made a get-back-to-this-passion-plan, it involves my brain and my eyes and hours of sitting around staring, sounds boring. I promised to read 12 books in 12 months. It was not ambitious, yet… Read more
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Removing the Training Wheels on the New Hobby
I have been busy. Not the busy with life per se, but more so with certain hobbies. They eat up my time, so I haven’t been blogging as much. I think its time to start sharing again. We (the sibs and I) picked up a new hobby, road biking, to go with the local climate… Read more
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Why I Decided Not to Vote
…By Mail No. I would not squander my vote like that. It’s actually the one responsibility I have as a citizen of this republic. Democracy is by the people, for the people, of the people; until those people stop voting. Its not perfect, but no human endeavor is. Worse, if people are dying in Iran,… Read more
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The “Bear Flag Republic” Develops Young Leaders
The awesome thing about civic engagement is seeing young adults develop skills and then apply them to real life situations. Since 2005 I have had the opportunity to be part of an innovative program called the Muslim Youth Leadership Program (MYLP) which was created by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Sacramento chapter for CAIR California… Read more
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“Supermoon” Over California Badlands
I wanted to share tonights adventure, but I will post more later about the where and the what, as well as the how cool it was. Right now, I wanted to let the images of the astronomical event in the surreal setting of Red Rock Canyon California State Park melt your mind away. The whole thing… Read more
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Adventures With The (Ramadan) Moon Sighting Committee
Every year we go into a period that I call “The Moon Wars”- its the perennial Muslim calendar event, a sort of “I can piss further then you can” showcase except it involves whether or not to use the moon sighting method to begin and end the most holy of holy months in the Muslim… Read more
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A Black and White Adventure- The Struggle is Real
The most amazing thing about photography is that in the most subtlest of ways you can take a picture, change it, and get something entirely new. I also haven’t gone out and about exploring the high desert wilderness for some time now, so I don’t have any new adventures to share. Lately I have business… Read more