Elizabeth & Jimbo,
guys, I’m really flattered and I’m so happy to get a great feedback from such great, educated and open-minded people like yourselves.
Actually in my earlier reply to Jimbo’s comment I totally forgot about thanking him for his sweet words and support, reason was knowing that he’s written a novel while taking care of his daughter, which is such an accomplishment!
And now you too say all that nice stuff I’m really out of words!

The contest’s debut, last year, drew some 2,500 essay submissions from the US and the Middle East. We hope to build off of that success this year, and with your help we can extend an even greater platform to the next generation of young civil rights activists.

Please consider alerting your readers about this opportunity. I have included a message to students below, and promotional materials (including web-ready banners, flyers and posters) are available at http://www.hamsaweb.org/promo.

Thank you for your consideration.

Karen

Omar, hope I wont let you or any of my readers down.

Qwaider, thanks for the insight, I appreciate all what you said and great Planet thanks for having me in it.

Refugee, friendships are priceless and yours is a really appreciated one. Thanks for the thoughtful quote and I promise to never let any of you down.

Jimbo, wow! you wrote a novel and you had a kid already! see, this is limitless potential, what was it called?
and thanks for the news and all your emails.

The only woman I ever knew to not be fundamentally changed by having a baby was a very bright, very shallow person who so looked forward to having a child because everyone told her how it would very much alter her perception of life. Five months post-birth, she [says, "You know how you guys told me that having a baby would change me?" "Ah, yeah?" "Well, when is that going to happen, huh? When?!" she demanded. (When last heard of the baby was eight years old, living with her Dad, and Mom had moved on to a new life in California.)

Your a passionate bright fighter for justice, Eman, and you write very well. (So well I sometimes have to remind myself that English isn't your mother tongue.) The rule of successful writing--other than dogged determination--is of course to write about something you know well and enjoy communicating; your work diaries were a joy to read, reminding us all that people have lots more in common than not: exploitive bosses, imbecilic co-workers, courage, good-humor (exhaustion.) I think whether you wanted to be or not, you've become a antidote to much of the boiling anti-Arab sentiments out there, brushing aside stereotyping and touching the basic themes that unite us all: good-humor, parenting, perseverance, the fragility and transience of people in an age where climate and conflict threaten us all.

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I did write my first novel while taking care of our first daughter, working days and being Mr. Mom at nights while my wife attended school. It can be done!

And what’s going on at Guilford College this week?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_on_re_us/guilford_assault_4

Guilford’s a Quaker school: pacifism, reasoned dialogue, brotherhood of man, stuff like that. Tantamount to Buddhist monks brawling in a temple. Of course, it was the football players…steroids shrink the brain. (Shrink other parts of the male anatomy, perhaps the players have a self-esteem problem.)

So, why are you sitting there reading this? Go write!

“This entire universe is a sport of Consciousness. One who is constantly aware of this is certainly a liberated being. Though in reality there is no bondage, the individual is in bondage as long as there exists the feeling of limitation in him. … In fact, there never has been any veiling or covering anywhere in reality. No one has.
Eman ,if there is one thing you owe us your readers ,you wight to make us assured you Eman well assure that you are well and able , you have to and often , we care for you as a mentor and next of ken .
try in fact to do it , you owe it is to us past and present and the future to come most of all ,the world gives trouble that is enough but the minute of our relation is a must to assure us and calm us all , Adam ,Marwan and your readers .keep it in mind and start at rectos us without devoting .