Even though Ramadan has come and gone for this year, I would still like Sunday in particular be the day (not necessarily the only one) where this space is used to go a little deeper than the usual silliness. At the same time though, I won’t be forcing the issue if it’s not there. […]
A few years back, I went to those closest to me and described my endgame in a few simple words (a pitch, basically). In the relatively short amount of time since then, I’ve knocked out several smaller tasks that all feed back into that larger, singular purpose: Getting my passport. Kicking my Arabic studies […]
I just finished re-reading Manning Marable’s analysis of Malcolm X. Marable ends with his belief that Malcolm would have denounced the 9/11 attacks as being fundamentally against everything Islam stands for, despite the claims of those who carried out the terrorism. Marable’s thesis at the end is Malcolm should be held up as a […]
My world it moves so fast today The past it seems so far away And I squeeze it so tight, I can’t breathe And every time I try to be What someone has thought of me So caught up, I wasn’t able to acheive But deep in my heart the answer it was in […]
Family is the ‘why.’ We’re all here as the product of two people, and nearly immediately our expectations and worldview of what ‘family’ is becomes formed. Do we have someone we call ‘Mother?’ Do we have someone we call ‘Father?’ How do those two people (mis)treat us? How do those two people (mis)treat each […]
‘Remember when you left Gotham? Before all this, before Batman? You were gone seven years. Seven years I waited, hoping that you wouldn’t come back. Every year, I took a holiday. I went to Florence, there’s this cafe, on the banks of the Arno. Every fine evening, I’d sit there and order a Fernet […]
For the second year in a row, I’ll begin Ramadan entering into a peak period of my life. I’m no longer ‘hitting’ my stride, I’m living in it. Around my birthday, I wrote a post referencing what it meant when you start living on ‘third base’. Deep fundamental changes start taking place… We all […]
Another classic from the Golden Age. Having said that, I guarantee every ‘socially conscious brotha’ saw this video at some point and got into the habit of telling the girls ‘I don’t care if this is a party song, I am NOT dancing…’
So most of you who keep up with me in other places know I’m a Union Guy now, officially. Major career milestone, and back to back years I’ve achieved my annual goal before making it halfway through the year. I contemplated whether I should go into the weekend: A) paying tribute to the deep […]
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