Poetry walk - Addison Street, Berkeley, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
I am humbled in this city
There seems to be an endless sea of people like us
Wakeful dreamers, I pass them on the sunlit streets
In our rooms filled with laughter
We make hope from every small disaster
-Painting by Chagall (The Weepies)
Conversations from the past week:
H: my English has […]

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Superman in San Francisco, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
I realized the other day that I hadn’t talked to my buddy S in months - so many months that the last conversation I clearly remembered was back in January. Worse, he had left me a voicemail a couple of weeks ago, wishing me Eid mubarak, and I […]

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I’m a bit out of the loop with Blogistan these days, which is why I was surprised to realize today is the deadline for submitting nominations for the fifth annual Brass Crescent Awards.
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Info:
The Brass Crescent Awards, a joint project of altmuslim and City of Brass, is an annual awards ceremony that honors the best writers […]

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We were waiting for you, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
TODAY:
one. Went to the post office, and was surprised - in a delighted way - that the smile on the man at the post office reminds me of my friend A’s.
two. When it came time to pick up my drink order, the guy at the coffeeshop called […]

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Public library, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
It’s afternoon, and I’m sitting inside a coffeeshop, right beside the large window overlooking the street. I’ve been here for hours, watching the way the light shifts and feeling the sunshine and shadows spill across my table.
The two men sitting right outside my window seem to know nearly every […]

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I posted the following link/letter to tumblr a few days ago, via Anjum and Preeti. You should be adding our tumblr feeds to your RSS reader of choice (because we are awesome, clearly), but, in case you neglect to do so, here is the awesomest email ever, in its rocking entirety, written by Karion. All […]

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I don’t know exactly what a prayer is, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
My Ramadan in disjointed pseudo-bulletpoints:
Just before Ramadan began, Anjum started a “Ramadan mubarak!” email thread. Hoda replied, “RAMADAN MUBARAK, EVERYBODY! I’m stoked!”, to which I added, “I’m kinda not stoked. Is that BLASPHEMY? (I think it kinda must be.)”
To which Anjum, being a smart […]

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Sent to 2Scoops, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
[Read the front of the card in large-size.]
This was originally posted to flickr, but, again, really belongs here, because Blogistan is where it started. Also, I need to stop blogging on flickr. It’s getting ridiculous.
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September 2008
2Scoops is one of my favorite crackstars in the entire world - and was, […]

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Happy birthday, Baji! (the belated, flickr edition), originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
This was originally posted to flickr, but truly belongs here. Although Baji and I have both been hanging out a lot more on flickr these days, Blogistan is where it all started, after all.
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September 25, 2008
My wrinkly pirate t-shirt and I would like to shout, […]

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