One of the advantages of having had a blog for going on 8 years and switching platforms and even emphases from time to time, is that one can emulate the scribe that Jesus describes in Matthew 13:52 and bring out ‘new treasures as well as the old,’ only in this case that order is inverted [...]
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arabian sea – Haiku / Poetry on the Death and Burial of Osama Bin Laden
Posted in Church Life and Theology, Haiku, Pakistan, Poetry, Politics, Senryu, tagged 911, al qaeda, arabian sea, conflict, death, forgiveness, ground zero, guilt, Haiku, islam, James Martin, john brown, john brown's body, lady macbeth, osama bin laden, pakistan, poems, Poetry, sea of forgetfulness, terrorism, united states, war, war on terror on Monday, May 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
in murky depths a body lies a mouldering; arabian sea arabian sea, all the perfumes of the land cannot clean stained hands arabian sea, it cannot yet be that sea, of forgetfulness __________________________ Also, though I am not a Catholic and so do not know exactly what to make of this author’s mention of the [...]
Photography as Inspiration – Mira Nair – The Namesake
Posted in Ache for Eternity, Art Thief, Culture, Pakistan, Poetry, Sonnets, tagged india, jhumpa lahiri, mira nair, pakistan, photography, photos, Poetry, Sonnets, the namesake on Friday, August 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
If it weren’t for photography, I wouldn’t be a flimmaker. Every film I make is fueled by photographs. Sometimes it is a particular image of a photographer, sometimes it is what I have learned by seeing the world through his or her eyes. Either way, photographs have always helped me crystallize the visual style of [...]