Blog Depression
31 August 2005
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Blog Depression: A public service announcement.
Funny stuff from The Nonist. Of course the material in that pamphlet has nothing to do with my hiatus. No, nothing at all.
The fifth child definitely has marked a change in our household. Each child brought its own thing, but with this one it is different. The house is now so full of activity in every little corner that there is no option but to fully engage from the moment I step in the door to the moment we’re all in bed. It is like every nonessential thing has just been squeezed out of my life, leaving behind only the very most important: job, children, worship, and… Job, children, worship. That’s about it. It has been somewhat ah gotta go. Kid’s crying.
I was wondering why you did not post for so long. Apart from the software problem, this must be the main reason.
I think I know a bit of what you’re going through. But you must be having a tougher time at it since you have two more and the experiences you’re get with each must also be more since their ages differ widely.
It must be close to a 24/7 routine you’re having! Thank God for sleep.. those precious little hours we get.
Salaams.
I KNEW I could have left Jihad there and you would have never noticed. See I missed that opportunity and I do regret it now.
Ephemera
Pete O'Neal, former Black Panther, is running an orphanage in rural Tanzania and confronting his mortality.
Author and Professor Dr Jamillah Karim spent a year living in Kuala Lumpur. Read this great interview by Sister Brooke, and then visit Dr Jamillah's blog for a series of thoughtful reflections on what living in Malaysia was like for her as an African American Muslim, what insights she gained about the immigrant Muslim experience in America and more.
Granfalloon (n) : "A proud and meaningless association of human beings." A word coined by Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) in his book Cat's Cradle. I was recalling the concept recently for some reason but couldn't bring the term to mind. There it is: A granfalloon. The idea is illustrated in the book by a woman from Indiana who is just thrilled to meet Hoosiers everywhere she goes, a Hoosier being a name for people from the state of Indiana, but the shared qualities she recognizes in Hoosiers exists only in her own mind. Thanks, Kurt.
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