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Every day brings us closer to spring, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
As the year winds down to a close, here are a couple of things to keep in mind:
Smile on your brother: The […]

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After the rain, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
MotherCan you keep them in the dark for lifeCan you hide them from the waiting worldOh mother
Driving across town a few days ago, I came to […]

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Really, I have no words. So I’m copy-pasting what I just sent out in an email. Background here.
The car of Dr. Zehra Attari was removed late last night from the Oakland Estuary. She was a pediatrician who lived in San Jose and maintained a clinic for low-income families in Oakland. Dr. Attari disappeared on the […]

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THIS…is the fastest way to my heart, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
Last Friday, I managed to drag my friend A along with me to Oakland, where I usually pray Jummah salah [the Friday congregational prayer]. I kept extolling the virtues of this favorite masjid of mine, until she reminded me that she had gone there […]

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Feeding the birds, Lake Merritt, Oakland, CA, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
[You can find all my photos from this day here. They’re more fun when you view them individually, so take the time to click through one by one, if you get a chance.]
Three days ago, I stepped inside the County of Alameda Administration Building […]

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So now that we’ve said goodbye to good ol’ ramblingmonologues, why don’t you pull up a chair, and go right ahead and prop your feet up on the coffeetable; that’s the only way I know how to sit comfortably, and you might as well do the same.
And while you’re getting settled in and looking around […]

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When they said ‘palm trees,’ they really weren’t kidding, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
[The “Change views, not channels” post title is inspired by those smug little San Diego-advertising billboards that I used to pass on my way to Sacramento everyday.]
Like everything else I’ve ever written, this is long overdue, so I figured I might as […]

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Okay, I promise I’ll stop with the links soon and actually give all y’all a real deal post to read, but, for now, lemme just say I’m having way too much fun browsing this website called HEL LOOKS, which has photographs of street fashion from Helsinki, the capital of Finland [via Oh My That’s Awesome!]. […]

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Is how we pray what makes us American? Or is it the sum of all the other moments in life that we share?

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