Category: Art and Culture

A New Different and Not Very Exciting Morning Greeting; Alexis Posing as a Lost Child; Excellent News Announcing Cessation of Neck Pain; Definition of Prophylactic Brings Laughter; Change of Heart versus Change of Mind; New Role for Artificial Intelligence, Advice to the Love Lorn: Peace Over Pity; Purpose over Pressure and Allah Over Everything  

At this moment I am living in Lyf – the result of which being:  no sunrise photos being sent to my faithful Whatsappers. This morning found me being, particularly, shall we say, creative. The caption…

My Eventful Life; Yuck Defined; Picked up at 12:30; To Urban Republic We Did Go; Daniel Provided Great Instruction; An Apple 11 Pro Max was a Gift to Him; A Working Brunch at Mojo Pojo; An Exhausting Day; A Funny GIF Received; Next Morning Fajr Prayer, Followed by Inspiration Found in Nurturing Emotional Intelligence; Inspiring Quotation From Book; Photo of Good Morning Eggs Brings Reunion; Prior Blog Has Background Story

It seems I somehow MUST write about my day-to-day existence because SO many things happen every day and every day is different than the day before. I often reflect upon what my life would be…

 My Good Morning Message of the Day; Realizing Perhaps I am Not Alone; Reach the Realization of My Becoming Insular; Look to the World Finding Chaos and Horror and Hypocrisy; My Move to the UAE an Example of Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire’ ; Don’t Look Back Quotes; Photos of a Dreary Morning; Slippers and a Hopeful Message  ;  

July 30, 2025 This morning I woke up to rain and a powerful storm. My dismal WhatsApp photo had the following message. Sunrise this morning. But the power of the thunder and lightening is electrifying. …

July 23, 2025 A Day That May Change My Life; Pivotal Days Could Be an Organizing Principle for my Autobiography; Some Days Thought to be Important Fade Away; A Photo of a Prior Visit to the Medinah’s Prophet Mosque; A Last Minute Cancellation Leds to a Surprise Visit to the Floating Mosque Which Inshallah Will Lead to a ‘Dream Job”; A Truly Inspired Nesh Instagram Post. Photos of the July 23, 2023 Visit; a PreDawn Photo of the Mosque, a Dawn Photo ; and a Funny GIF. 

I look back at my long and well-lived life suddenly realizing that there are certain days that are pivotal, something happens on a particular  day which will change one’s life forever. This could be an…

Day Two With the Blessings of Having a Content Manager Who Spoke of Snow White; Whimsically Asked Artificial Intelligence to Describe the Core Attributes of Snow White; The Overly Lengthily Response Caused Feelings of Robbed Creativity; My Conversations with Real People Reveal Attributes Ascribed to Snow White: Song Natural Woman Found to be Unbelievably and Unbearably Romantic; Photos of Pool, A Funny GIF and Good Morning Greeting.

It was with no small measure of trepidation that I turned over the management of me (essentially) ver to a Nesh, my newly acquired Content Manager. Today is the second day – two blog breakdowns…

A Song Comes to Mind; Let It Be Me; Listen to the Elvis Presley Rendition; Bantering with Shamir; Attempting to Decipher Blog Statistics; New Malaysian Work Force; Experiencing Trepidation: Finding Myself Kicking Over the Traces; Comfort Found in the “Passage of Time’; Photos of Recent Statistics; Work in Progress and a New Fangled Device

The words of a song came to mind. This oft happens. Cannot get it out of my mind. These are the words;  “ God bless the day I found you.”  This time I am (rather…

A Day’s Delay Makes Visiting the Islamic Art Museum Malaysia Made it into an Anniversary of Sorts; The First Floor Architectural Gallery was the Focus of This Visit; The Museum’s Ambiance: Return to Penang Resulted in a Conversation With Artificial Intelligence That Must Be Read to Be Believed; Imbedded Photographs

Faithful readers will remember, the planned visit to the Islamic Art Museum was delayed for a day because of a late start. Therefore the visit took place on July 8, 2025. Miraculously the admittance ticket…

Onto the KL Events of July 8, 2025; Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men; Islamic Art Muslim Postponed, Instead the Dakwah Corner Book Store, a Total and Absolute Treasure Trove; First a Mountain of Children’s Books Leading Outward to Grown Up Books of Inspiration;Finding Muslim Character in print; Conversations Between Shamir and Myself Concerning Artificial Intelligence; Photographs of Book Covers

Yesterday’s blog found me barely arriving at KL after a blessed and eventful  trip on the train. I was intending to speak of the rather momentous events of that July 7, 2025 day and evening…