It’s been a long but quite pleasant process: contacting various reviewers, submitting a review proposal and, for the few that accepted, shipping the book out to them and, finally, waiting rather impatiently for the review. The day has finally come! You can check out the first review to The Spirit Within Club here. You can… Read More The First Review of My Book, “The Spirit Within Club”
There are many things one can count on around the time of Halloween: costumes, candy, and a wonderful debate on the usefulness of this day. It can be argued that because of the costumes, the decorations and the baking, Halloween is a wonderful time to exercise creativity. I love it when it has to do… Read More Halloween: The Devil’s Way of Bringing People Together
Why are we kinder to others than we are to ourselves? Because once we leave our friend to go home, we do not dwell on what happened. We see all the great things about them, understand that they made a mistake, and move on. But when it is ourselves, we dwell in the quicksand of… Read More Detachment is key
I don’t know nearly enough to give a profound opinion on the tragic, heart-breaking death of the Chinese Toddler struck by two vans. However, between that and all the other news about suffering children and teenagers (I’m thinking about the recent suicides by bullied teenagers), I can’t help but wonder: how as a race are… Read More The Death of the Chinese Toddler
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I am all for eliminating greed; but would corporate greed exist if personal greed did not exist? And how many of us can claim that, at the very least, we are striving to not be greedy?
Someone once asked me: why do you talk about the Bahá’í Faith so much? I asked this person if they were a healthcare professional. They said no. “When someone tells you about feeling sick, what do you say?” “I suggest to them things that I know will make them feel better.” “Why? If you are… Read More Caring for others
One of my oft mentioned opinions is the fact that one mega superstar à la Michael Jackson cannot be something that happens often in a world moving slowly towards self-realization. After all, if music is an expression of emotions that can’t be expressed through words alone, doesn’t it make more sense to have a lot… Read More A new take on remakes, remixes and mashups
This is a fantastic post written by a fellow Canadian and Baha’i regarding the nature of elections and comparing the electoral process in our country to that in our religious community. The school semester has finally come to an end, and I’m soooo looking forward to a summer of blogging. During the semester I had… Read More Casting Two Ballots: Reflections of a Canadian Bahá’í Voter (via Yours Ambiguously, E.E. Talisman)
Engendering Equality, a blog I have been lucky enough to contribute to recently, posted a link to a fantastic video recently. In a letter to Little Wayne, two young girls confront him about his lyrics bringing women down. It’s yet another well made yet simple video sharing a powerful message. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j-T-FVR0WZw]