A chessboard awaits potential players in an Oakland park, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
The Lovely L Lady asked me this evening, “So, what do you do during this meditation?”
“Well. I just close my eyes and concentrate on dua [supplications] and dhikr and any other prayers I have memorized.”
“Oh, good,” she said in mock relief. “I thought maybe you’d gone and joined a cult, or something.”
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How funny is it that, just a few days after I posted about my dinner/meeting at the Tandoori Cafe, I ran into one of the women at the Wednesday gathering tonight? They’re even infiltrating my meditation sessions now! The best part is, I couldn’t even be exasperated or annoyed. All I could do was throw my hands up in surrender, and laugh. Thanks, God; I always knew You had a sense of humor. Clearly, you’re the one winning in this sublime chess game we’ve got going on.
4 responses so far ↓
1 z-man // Nov 8, 2007 at 1:31 pm
“All I could do was throw my hands up in surrender.” Ameen to that.
2 Anjum // Nov 8, 2007 at 9:55 pm
ditto to z-man’s comment! which is really ditto to your’s.
i remember that foto-shoto. =)
3 yasmine // Nov 8, 2007 at 11:25 pm
ZMan,
Amen! Thanks for the questions/conversation you brought up earlier today, too. Needed that.
Anjum,
I remember walking around in downtown Oakland, taking this photo, and, on the one hand, I can’t believe it was only about 1.5 years ago, and, on the other hand, it seems SO long ago.
4 I don’t know why I say the things I say, but I say them anyway // Nov 17, 2007 at 1:51 am
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