April fool’s day. Yes, let’s have a worldwide recognition day to reflect that we are all such fools. We know so little and therefore we have so many experts of Knowing!

I want the weather gods to say, “Just Joking!” I want to hear It is all just a hoax that it is December temperatures in April. There is no global warming heading to an ice age. “Please laugh already!” I want to hear from the cold front that lasts longer and longer each month every passing year. I don’t want historians to describe in words “what was once known as Spring”; I want future generations to be able to experience it. Somewhere.

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Yesterday ...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2012/04/still-sundays-76/feed/ 2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ http://annieqsyed.com/2011/11/occupy-stillness-viktor-frankl-the-challenge-of-potential-meaning-to-fulfill/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2011/11/occupy-stillness-viktor-frankl-the-challenge-of-potential-meaning-to-fulfill/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:41:54 +0000 annie http://annieqsyed.com/?p=2562 November 20, 2011.

Still Sundays.

The New York City skyline never gets old.

I am getting older; I like it.

Love too never gets old.

This month is over, this year is over, my obsession with time, truth, and love continues.

What do I want to be when I grow up? A writer? A doctor? A teacher? A lawyer? A writer? This time I get to decide how I want to be, not who based on what.

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 People have recurring dreams. I don’t.

My latest obsession is putting into words this “recent” dream: I am in a field of teal colored dragonflies. They are everywhere. The field is on the edge of a horizon or so ...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2011/11/occupy-stillness-viktor-frankl-the-challenge-of-potential-meaning-to-fulfill/feed/ 3 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ http://annieqsyed.com/2011/10/still-sundays-66/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2011/10/still-sundays-66/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:18:42 +0000 annie http://annieqsyed.com/?p=2495 October 2nd.

Lymph nodes for spiritual bacteria. Dialogue with the body (video link to blindfolded yoga with Marco Rojas). Notes from Protests and Revolutions: the phenomena needed for a revolutionary movement.

The windows in the bedroom had to be closed last night. The room was chilled from the October breeze, a carrier with a post-card from the future: winter is around the corner.

I wish I didn’t write as slowly as I do. I wish I didn’t see putting words on paper as setting lights on a stage (and on worse days delivering thought babies!). I wish I wrote as fast on Sunday mornings and when I attempt fiction as when I am writing an email.

However, I am ...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2011/10/still-sundays-66/feed/ 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ http://annieqsyed.com/2011/08/still-sundays-59/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2011/08/still-sundays-59/#comments Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:58:40 +0000 annie http://annieqsyed.com/?p=2438 August 14th.

“The present is the whole of the past concentrated.” ~ Iqbal; Bernard Shaw on Tolstoy’s “What is Art”?; opinions about opinions; Anders, the homeless man in London, on books.

I awoke this Sunday morning in some rainforest. The rain, glossy chandeliers, was falling without crashing. It took me a minute to realize I was in New York City.

It was nice to take a break from putting thoughts on the braille made of words last Sunday. Does Stillness too take a break? No, I don’t think so. We do. It’s hard to swim in peace: no sharks of conflict that actually bite, no shore of tomorrow, no ship of yesterday, how long can you stay afloat ...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2011/08/still-sundays-59/feed/ 5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ http://annieqsyed.com/2011/08/the-beauty-myth/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2011/08/the-beauty-myth/#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:24:55 +0000 annie http://annieqsyed.com/?p=2429 Mama says it is to men’s advantage to recognize the reservoir of strength that is a woman (regardless of a man’s sexual preference). But in order to achieve this, she says, it demands a lot of deconstruction which begins by looking beyond a woman’s physical appearance and a man’s attachments to conscious and unconscious roles she is supposed to play. But that deconstruction can begin only when a woman is able to see herself beyond her physical appearance. She also says that unfortunately the stereotypes that exist about women exist because majority of the women are not strong enough to break them. If you look a certain way, you must be flirtatious. If you have ambition, you must be needy ...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2011/08/the-beauty-myth/feed/ 8 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ http://annieqsyed.com/2010/10/still-sundays-18/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2010/10/still-sundays-18/#comments Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:13:46 +0000 annie http://annieqsyed.com/?p=1443 What skin color is art?  1925. Inhaling the energy of Theodore Dreiser, Wharton Esherick, and Jasper Deeter. Guardians of the Flame.

October 10th.

If you would like to know what Still Sundays is about, please take a quick gander here and just read the third paragraph. Thanks.

The neighborhood of Mount Airy in Philadelphia boasts a variety of architecture but the grand Victorians dominate. The beautiful houses seem as old as the glorious trees and forest canopy; the varied flower gardens are crafted within breathtaking stone landscaping. This makes every turn around the corner ready for the perfect photograph or painting. The historic homes are as unique as the people inside: playwrights, doctors, lawyers, ...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2010/10/still-sundays-18/feed/ 8 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ http://annieqsyed.com/2010/06/soccer-in-sun-and-shadow/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2010/06/soccer-in-sun-and-shadow/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:31:03 +0000 annie http://annieqsyed.com/?p=971 I am drooling over a new book I just bought: Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano.

You can read more about the book here. Having read only a few pages I highly recommend it. The writing is delicious and moves along easy.

He writes, “Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good soccer. I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: ‘A pretty move, for the love of God.’ And when good soccer happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.”

“The history of soccer is ...]]> http://annieqsyed.com/2010/06/soccer-in-sun-and-shadow/feed/ 2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ http://annieqsyed.com/2010/03/the-reconstruction-of-male-female-relations-in-developing-nations-and-its-implications-for-nation-building/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://annieqsyed.com/2010/03/the-reconstruction-of-male-female-relations-in-developing-nations-and-its-implications-for-nation-building/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:11:12 +0000 annie http://annieqsyed.com/?p=614 Disclaimer: Although there exist exceptions to all types of generalizations and stereotypes, they remain exceptions; therefore, until the exceptions stand out to the extent that they defy the rule, the majority determines the actuality. That being said, I am grateful to know some anomalies who also happen to be my friends who are exceptional beacons for their communities and countries. Moreover, this article is at best a prologue to a possible research paper in need of further substantiating research.