Dear Fellow Warrior, I wrote this poem about a poem that I wrote about 2020. 🙂 There might be a moment where I share that poem as well. But here is the poem I wrote about it. 🙂 Here is a quote to inspire you in your courageous act of writing… It is the quote…
Articles from May 2022
A Love Letter to My Poverty…
Connected to my last post… a love letter to my poverty: To my dearest Poverty, O my darling Poverty… Do not let me rise above you. Without your recollection, without your scars… as the alarm bells inside the soul and mind. Stay with me, my dear “traumas of difficult times.” Teach me. And never stop.…
The “Dignity of Work”
“How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.” – Pope Francis “A lot of jobs don’t allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.” Albert Camus At the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic, there was great anxiety about the…
Songs of Victory….
Yesterday, I attended my School-specific graduation. I really wanted to get a lot of different things done relevant to my dissertation research before this date, but it couldn’t happen due to the need to prioritize the “dignity of work” which I will address in a different post. It was a special and important moment for…
Reminiscing Pakistan’s Allama Iqbal during Amreeka’s National Poetry Month
{Featured Photo from Pakistan National Monument Museum, Islamabad, December 25, 2018.} “Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.” – Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal It is another moment in Pakistan’s history, a moment which some may perceive to be a “window of opportunity,” and others, a…