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How we co-create reality.

To be a woman, a Muslim, and free.

I like the interpretation of the word sacred as “set apart.”

“God does not place upon a soul more than it can bear.”

Remember the best of what you did while fasting and try to keep that.

Getting through security with a headscarf and a lot of silver jewelry.

At the root of our desire for retribution is the wish that those who have wronged us feel the full weight of what they have done, suffering remorse proportionate in severity to the gravity of their crime. In short, we hunger for their redemption. And so, when the retributive impulse is finally satisfied, it naturally resolves itself into forgiveness. The darkness is lifted, because the evil—the dissociation from the good that inspired the crime—has been destroyed.

House will vote on H.R. 3 tomorrow.

This is a world in which all the dials are turned up to 11—there’s more risk, more conflict, more drama. It’s a world where a few men have over 100 children apiece. One guy has over 250. Drab or dismal it’s not.

Tahrir Square clearly proved both bin Laden and his lieutenant al-Zawahiri wrong.