So Much Has Happened in My Life in the Past 24 Hours; I Do Have To Retreat and Recoup; I Have Been Reduced to Ashes But Emerged as the Phoenix; Excuse Me, Tears of Joy Not Sorrow; A Photograph of a Birthday Cake Made for a Wonderful Little Girl Who Lives Very Nearby; No More Nicknames to Those Who Have Harmed Me; I am Blessed; All Praise to Allah

I am saying no more, for once. Sort of speechless, who would have ever thought something like that would every happen to me, of all people? Yesterday was one of the worst days of my…

My Mantra; The 23rd Psalm; Evil Entries Found in The Companion Dictionary of Quotations; Evil Tiptoed Into My Life But Is Rescued By the Faith; Wise Man Opines That the Faith Protects Me; Subjugation, Envisioned and Mantra Defined; Photograph of Delhi Llama and As Yet Unnamed Unicorn

First of all, do let us define mantra. Apparently there is no generally accepted definition of mantra. Renou has defined mantra as a thought.[ Mantras are structured formulae of thoughts, claims Silburn.[Farquhar concludes that mantras…

Here Comes the Inauguration; News from a Middle East Network Supplemented by Reliable Mainstream Television Reporting; Getting Off One’s Soapbox Defined and Illustrated; Then Such Positive News of the Inauguration Due to the Choice of Amanda Gorman; The Certainty of Good Prevailing Over Evil as Found in the Qur’an; Photographs of Daffodils

This from Al Jazeera, the network which approaches the news of the world in an intellectual fair and considered manner. Those in the know will know that Al Jazeera is owned (and funded in part)…