There is something magical about mornings, those early early mornings when the sun is still rubbing its eyes trying to wake up. Not coincidentally, this morning is one of those mornings. The few thin, long whips of cloud in the sky are highlighted by the suns first few rays of light. It’s beautiful. I’m not [...]
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Early Morning
Posted in Processing, Random on January 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
When a big heart is too big.
Posted in Processing, Random, Travel, tagged Chile, China, compassion, natural disasters, Pakistan on August 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
No lie, today I’m a bit depressed. No one died; nothing happened to make me miss home; I’m not running out of money; the food here is still delicious; my bed is comfortable. Everything on the outside is perfectly fine. But on the inside my mind is running in circles around itself. The problem? I [...]
Sure, Abdull Razaq Qandagha, I’ll help you build your house.
Posted in Persian, Random on January 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
(“D.I.Y. Foreign Aid”: video by NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.) Meet Abdull Razaq Qandagha from Kabul, Afghanistan. Abdull is a hard working man, providing for his family with his government job. He has already bought a piece of land, yet cannot manage to pull together enough money to build the house he had planed to [...]
