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Response to My Letter to Secretary Kerry regarding Gaza

Posted on July 22, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

  I wrote to Secretary Kerry’s office to express my concern over the situation in Gaza…and this was the reply and my synopsis below : “………July 22, 2014 Dear Skip, Thank you for your message concerning the issues surrounding the … Continue reading →

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God, Truth, and Love

Posted on July 20, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

The weary ghost insists that the conversation continue… You’re asking me for answers. Being so conscientious, I’ll do my best to stay awake and talk, but it’s gibberish. I miss days of talking through an entire night – into oblivion – until … Continue reading →

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Raw Hands (Palestine)

Posted on July 20, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Child unearthed alive after buried in Gaza by Israeli air bombardment. After a “warning bomb” through your roof, you are given 58 seconds to run, and 8 minutes to dig your child out from the rubble.  The completely buried child’s … Continue reading →

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Shams

Posted on July 19, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

For Shams, there is little difference between the bottom of a well, or the heights of Halcyon. tis nothing if not heardEmailTwitterFacebook0PrintGoogle

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Poetry in the Elusive Garden

Posted on July 19, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

We pluck sweet and thorny words, like roses, from the cacophony and hand them to one another in the vicissitudes of poetry. From pre-eternity, it is we who are plucked from garden of non-existence to dwell a while in the … Continue reading →

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Change Without Begins Within

Posted on July 19, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

It is easy to forget, and impossible to know, that where we are today is the result of a change someone made or failed to make in the past. These subtle forms of complicity are more treacherous than rotten deeds … Continue reading →

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Remember My Face

Posted on July 19, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

It was not my home they bombedThe little girl said,But a thin shell which failed instead.My home?It is within a billion heartsAnd beyond that,part of every star.My name?It’s spoken in every tongue,But a different languageFor everyone.And what ever for us,was willed … Continue reading →

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Bliss is a Master of Disguise

Posted on July 16, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Every story is story within a story. And clarity doesn’t come while in lotus position, chanting in dhikr, near death experiences, or love making (although the latter two can be faintly indistinguishable) Rather, it is not just in the “doing” … Continue reading →

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Killing time

Posted on July 16, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

Oppression is a disease to be eradicated.  Sadly humans are carriers.  But if this (photo of Pakistani female pilot, Ayesha Farooq) were an American male fighter pilot, flag on his helmet, in an American F-16 going on the same bombing run against … Continue reading →

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Pieces of Gibran

Posted on July 16, 2014 by skipavm@gmail.com

To marvel at Gibran the writer, his works, or the self disclosure both reading and knowing him brings. Which? Which? Perhaps, we should not try to disassemble anything that already leaves us feeling whole. We cannot reassemble colors into pure … Continue reading →

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