the immediacy of life is exactly that reality that we all obscure so that we need not face our own mortality…
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Optimism and Positive Thinking
Optimism, that positive poison, is merely self-pity dressed up as Santa Claus. One day the charade will end and your naivety will be shattered. Make it today so that you …
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Observation – Where Love Begins
Relationships begin most frequently with physical attraction. Yet this physical attraction is held airbrushed in the fantasizing mind; the physical remains an abstraction. It is through time and the experience …
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View from Leopold’s of London Cafe, Abu Dhabi
The water lay dark and still, a reflection of the night sky. Around its bay-shores sparse and dim lights murmured on its dead surface, blurring like smudges, misshapen and utterly …
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Advice to my Children
Your fears and your failures are just the beginning of getting things right. Press on!…
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Observation – Head Noise
The rushing of invisible seas mixes through my ears washing my thoughts with irritation, a questioning tinnitus distracting me from focussing like the incessant ‘why-ing’ of a small child driving …
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Observation – Where Faith is Found
Paddling close to the shore is safe, we are in control and enjoy the lapping water and the security of the more solid sands. But what is truly interesting, what …
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Observation – Blind Proximity
If you stand at the North Pole, at absolute North, you have conquered it, obliterated it. North for you at that time and that place no longer exists. Yet it …
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Observation – Signs
The unexpected cough, the unstoppable sneeze or the inexorable blinking of your eyes, all are signs of Allah’s all-encompassing power. They are signs of His easy ability to end you …
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Boxer
It was as quick as a handclap but boy it felt like thunder to my face: a stiff jab and a rocking straight right. It didn’t just stand me up; …
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