Even amongst members of other earth-based belief systems, it is amazing how often I get the raised eyebrow when I mention that I am walking not only the Druid path but also the Shamanic Way. …
[For Simon Roper and Suzanne Ford, for their support]. This is my house; our house. You see the guitar, thrown down on the arm-chair? We have that guitar because my mum bought it for my…
Television arrived at our San Fernando Valley home in the early days of broadcast, thanks to already outdated sets that my dad brought home and got working. Since we lived in the Los Angeles area,…
The climb used to seem dangerous to reach the correct tier of the waterfall, the best one for reading, especially reading Tolkien. Safe there from the rest of the world, ready to be absorbed into…
When I had first entered the Al-Mahdi Institute, I had to learn Arabic and at that point recognise the letters. One night, alone in my rented house, I was attempting to read the first few…
I only watched the Ralph Bashki cartoon and the Rankin Bass ROTK and The Hobbit when I was a kid. I knew nothing about Tolkien in 2001; I was 8 years old. The Mummy Returns…
Why are there now so many books of lists of ten things we must do before we die? Why not nine, or eleven? And why should pay someone for a list of experiences he says…
My childhood memories of Holy Week, when Christians the world over commemorate the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, are a kaleidoscope of images and impressions, turning from lighter colors to deepening hues. I…
You are supposed to take care of things you need in your daily life routine, but if Mother is there, she will take care of it, all of it. I was about to leave for…
It’s been eleven long, interminable years since I traversed land and sea, crossed oceans and sand dunes, and embarked upon the most sacred journey a Muslim can possibly make: the Hajj (pilgrimage to…
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