Kickin' It |
From street thugs / To Ghetto Sufis / Holding their breaths /
We clutch to riches and fame / Like it’s all that’s left /
Righteousness is kept / Through minds awakened /
Today we break our word / Like the bread we're breaking
~ Outlandish "Words Stuck to the Heart"
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What do I do with my spare time? Interests: Travel / Photography / Drawing / the Middle East / Africa / What was once "Yugoslavia" / Paris in any season / Writing (yet I swear I'm an engineer) / Music / Immersing myself in new cultural experiences / Foreign languages / Faith / Stimulating conversations with people who actually give a damn about the world / Losing myself in the streets of far-flung places / Cafe culture / GheTto SuFIs / Def Poetry! / Travelling the old Silk Road / Challenging sterotypes / Sincerity / Watching the world pass by / Hope / Climbing minarets to hear the echo of the adhan at dawn / People-watching / Passion and compassion / Plotting how to get into an embassy just to say I've been to the country / The feeling that nothing in the world matters besides the present Music of the Month: Talib Kweli, Lupe Fiasco, Mos Def, Outlandish, Cat Stevens, Kareem Salaama, K'naan, Idan Raichel, Ray Lamontagne |
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"Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand." ~ William Golding
This is a 786 Tongmark Production
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