KakNgah asked me if it was true that our hearts are the size of our fist, and our brains are the size of our two fists put together. I put my two fists together, shrugged and told her that sounded about right to me. She looks at her two fists. Blinks. Wails: “My brain is […]
Author Archives: bingregory
Dissident flees to obscure nation, raises many children
Pete O’Neal, former Black Panther, is running an orphanage in rural Tanzania and confronting his mortality. His life is explored in the PBS documentary A Panther in Africa.
American Muslim Expat Life
Author and Professor Dr Jamillah Karim spent a year living in Kuala Lumpur. Read this great interview by Sister Brooke, and then visit Dr Jamillah’s blog for a series of thoughtful reflections on what living in Malaysia was like for her as an African American Muslim, what insights she gained about the immigrant Muslim experience […]
Me and Simon’s Quest
The small walfdorf-esque grade school I went to was heavily into drama. We used to do several plays a year with the whole class. Mostly they were mythological themes: the Norse saga, the Krishna story, the Gilgamesh epic. I loved it. When our school principal’s daughter opened up an acting school in Royal Oak, I […]
Lakbakabar
Two-Year-Old Future Muezzin in Action
Freshly Dug Ginger
It is often my job to gather ingredients for the meal from our garden. Our ginger has lately done well enough to allow some occasional harvesting. Considering we use it in virtually every meal I doubt we’ll ever be self-sufficient but it’s nice to eat from your own land when you can.
Granfalloons
Granfalloon (n) : “A proud and meaningless association of human beings.” A word coined by Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) in his book Cat’s Cradle. I was recalling the concept recently for some reason but couldn’t bring the term to mind. There it is: A granfalloon. The idea is illustrated in the book by a woman from […]
Brass Crescent 2011
The Brass Crescent Awards for 2011 are open for voting. There are just a huge number of quality blogs up for consideration. Polls close on November 7.