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the fragments that remain: April 2013
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Thursday, April 11, 2013. The beautiful struggle: a lone fisherman. Tries to catch a meal in Ali Bagh. One of my biggest challenges living/traveling abroad has always been the transition back to the US. Even after making this shift dozens of times, I still fail to maneuver between the realities of the two worlds I find myself in: for example, the fact that 22 out of every 25 children will drop out of school by the 5. 8230;I was speechless. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Instead...
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the fragments that remain: Dealing with the cracks: Art and entrepreneurs
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Sunday, December 1, 2013. Dealing with the cracks: Art and entrepreneurs. Although I’ve always dreamed of being an artist, my stick figure drawings or Power Point. Presentations have somehow never quite qualified me. According to. One of Pakistan’s most well known novelists. However, my dreams might not be completely hopeless. In a talk last week at the. Conference, Mohsin Hamid painted a simple yet profound [re]definition of art:. Art is the unwillingness to accept the way things are. As there is no suc...
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the fragments that remain: September 2011
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Thursday, September 8, 2011. Saying “goodbye” to Pops and Pakistan. Pops enjoying the simple things in life. I’ve never been good at saying goodbye. (I don’t even understand why it’s called that – is there anything good about saying bye? This past week, however, I had to say two of them – to the beautiful Pakistan and to my beloved Pops. A number of high profiled assassinations. In Lahore; flooding in rural Sindh. While even from my perspective this has often seemed to be a peace that passes understandin...
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the fragments that remain: October 2014
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014. Perfection: the Enemy of Purpose. Although many of us have come to the conclusion that a meaningful life can only be achieved through meaningful work, I've sadly made the mistake of assuming this meaning is only achieved by people "changing the world" (e.g., the MLKs, Mandelas and Mother Teresas). Through our work at Amal Academy. However, we are finding that it doesn't take Red-Cross-like organizations or Mother-Theresa-type leaders to make a difference. What the fellows are te...
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the fragments that remain: July 2014
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Thursday, July 3, 2014. Developing happiness / coming home in an "unlikely place". The Amal Academy Fellows during our first session together. Every year, on the eve of my birthday, I enjoy what many find to be the oddest movie tradition: the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Although I appreciate their skepticism, I've begun to think that perhaps the film somehow symbolizes home for me. Not because of the protagonist's name (although that might play a small part! After nearly a year struggling through th...
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the fragments that remain: July 2013
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013. The impossibility of replacing a person: Life after a near death experience. Clipper and Douglas St, Noe Valley, SF. In his book “Man's Search for Meaning,” Holocaust survivor Dr. Viktor Frankl writes:. When the impossibility of replacing a person is realized, it allows the responsibility which a man has for his existence and its continuance to appear in all its magnitude. But for some reason, I didn’t…. Being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other ...
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the fragments that remain: January 2014
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Friday, January 24, 2014. Professor Greg Dees: A life that bent history itself. Robert Kennedy once said, “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events.” Although his life was cut short just a few weeks ago, Professor Greg Dees. Has undeniably bent the history of my own life and has. Radically changed more than just a small portion of events throughout the world. During my first class with Professor Dees. Perhaps the best side). Professor...
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the fragments that remain: August 2011
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Monday, August 15, 2011. Gandhi, independence(s) and discovering unity in a world of division. About one week before Pakistan and India celebrated their separate independence days. I found myself standing in the final footprints of the man who largely inspired this independence but forever opposed the division that it created. Overcome with humility and awe, my friend Bavidra. Each quote seemed to build off of each other, amassing into a wave of wisdom that finally overtook us with the following idea:.
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the fragments that remain: Professor Greg Dees: A life that bent history itself.
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Friday, January 24, 2014. Professor Greg Dees: A life that bent history itself. Robert Kennedy once said, “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events.” Although his life was cut short just a few weeks ago, Professor Greg Dees. Has undeniably bent the history of my own life and has. Radically changed more than just a small portion of events throughout the world. During my first class with Professor Dees. Perhaps the best side). Professor...
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the fragments that remain: Perfection: the Enemy of Purpose
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014. Perfection: the Enemy of Purpose. Although many of us have come to the conclusion that a meaningful life can only be achieved through meaningful work, I've sadly made the mistake of assuming this meaning is only achieved by people "changing the world" (e.g., the MLKs, Mandelas and Mother Teresas). Through our work at Amal Academy. However, we are finding that it doesn't take Red-Cross-like organizations or Mother-Theresa-type leaders to make a difference. What the fellows are te...
