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Dear friends of books, reading, dreaming, learning, thinking & meditating 🧘🏻‍♂️ I’m launching a new series of YouTube shorts (literature, philosophy, spirituality) and would really appreciate your

Forgive the long absence … Life! I am quietly thrilled to receive a first look at my forthcoming collection of new reflections— political, cultural & spiritual — composed during our global pandemic

My paternal grandmother, may she rest in peace, was forced to leave her ancestral home, in Palestine, at gunpoint. So, it’s especially meaningful for me to see Farha on Netflix. Directed by Darin J. Sallam,

Who are our literary friends that we can still (re)turn to... after the great flood of youth 🌊 Austrian poet, Rilke, is one of the few old friends for me who renew themselves ; he grows with us, and reveals

One day, on Instagram, I saw a quote of mine featured in a popular calendar & it gave me an idea. Since my sayings have gone viral & are used in classrooms, already, why not create an inspirational

Around 2 decades ago, when I still lived in Egypt, I attended a powerful contemporary dance performance that blew my mind 🤯 It was passionate, beautiful, free, bold and urgent in a way I had not seen,

It used to be, around 10 years ago, that you did not visit Comuna 13, in San Javier, Colombia— which was then under gorilla control. Thanks, to former President Uribe & the help of the paramilitary,

Pups can’t regulate their body temperature, but after a particularly difficult/messy night, we had to give Danny boy his first proper bath 🧼 He was up all night, whimpering from 4:30 - 7:00 am & made

Thanks, to my forward-thinking, curious wife, I learned of Steemit/Hive, where I’ve been blogging for a few years, now, regularly. So, it’s no surprise that during our visit to Colombia, she became aware

My pup is growing up. We’ve had him for a little over 10 days, now, and he’s around a month old. The good boy is (almost) potty trained & (nearly) sleeps through the night. He loves to play & is

A project I’ve dreamed of, for years, is now a reality. I've collaborated with a clever young programmer/to deliver one quote a day from my books as a text message, directly, to your phone (and very soon

Today, we left the city & drive up to the farm with our new doggy & two ducks 🦆 Danny the pup 🐶 is a competitive sleeper and napped away most of the day in acrobatic positions. At the farm, the

My heart is full! How could it not be, with this adorable new little guy in our lives 🤗 We named the sweet pup, Danny, which it turns out means (in Hebrew) God is my judge My guess is Danny is around

Fascinating to see my work cited in an academic study about aphorisms, by a professor from Beijing University, China. Particularly interesting to me is the notion of philosophy as poetry and the ethical

There is much to protest in the modern world & that might push us to civil disobedience: political injustice, governmental corruption, immoral wars. But, in the spiritual realm, matters are different…

While lying in bed, half awake, I received exciting news this morning — still in early talks, so keeping it general 🤓 I just got invited by a school to give an hour long Zoom talk, before 200 students

Rest In Peace, dear Yasmina…Cousin, Friend, Journalist & Author 🙏🏼✨ Today, would have been your 47th birthday & you live on in the hearts of all whose lives you touched 💐 Yasmina Ykelenstam,

It’s exciting to wake up this morning & hear from a writer friend, the prolific author of 20 books, that he saw my books on the shelves of a bookstore in Singapore 🤓 Here is the website of Wardah

Make a list and count the ways you hide and seek to self-medicate through food, drink, art, prayer and other more violent distractions to convince others and yourself you’ve outdistanced—what? an unnameable

If you follow this blog, you’ve heard me say (countless times) how wonderful airfryers are. Case in point, I was using it, yesterday, to prepare chicken tenders, and so I made French fries in the oven.