“If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.” – Rumi Dear Fellow Warrior, How was your summer? I did “a lot” of mountain driving… well, a lot more than I am used to, as I share in my new medium article HERE, entitled “Driving through ‘Dangerous Mountains’.” The anxiety was amplified,…
Travels
Just Another Ode to Pakistan… From an ABCD
Dear Fellow Warriors, I wrote this piece a few months ago, and I have been meaning to share it for a while now. Just mustering up the courage, because it may be slightly embarrassing and exposing perhaps, and imposter syndrome can always make it worse. But I am someone who remains an open book nonetheless,…
Happy New Year: Transcendence from Survival to Revival
“If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.”-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. {Featured Photo: Painting entitled “Celebrating Milestones,” which symbolizes hope, celebration, and moving forward, while still trying to put the different puzzle pieces together. Part of the “Painting Heals…Pakistan” auction.} Dear…
‘Generation Alpha’…
“If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.” – Rumi I read recently that the generation largely known as the children of Millennials is called “Generation Alpha”. This is the first cohort of children born entirely in the 21st century, constituting those born in the early 2010s to…
Celebrating 14 years (plus or minus) “Living the Dream” at our Nation’s Capital
“I’m the small town, one in seven billion, why can’t it be me?”….. There is a beautiful area behind my apartment building, where I often go to walk and jog. And it is only a 10 minute walk through this area to the DC metro station that leads me straight into the Nation’s Capital towards…
The Lady in the Rickshaw
Dear Fellow Warrior, I wanted to share a poem with you. I think the poet suppressed within me is gradually returning. Perhaps I deprived that part of me through my graduate studies. It had been silenced and it is trying so hard to emerge when I keep telling it to wait, wait, wait, until I…
“AZAADI:” What does it mean to you? – Part 1
“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” – Khalil Gibran There are certain Urdu words I mix with my English, which I would love for my non-Urdu speaking friends to know. Urdu words that are special to the Pakistani within me… and one of them is “Azaadi.” Azaadi in Urdu means Freedom. Earlier…