Fehime’s Patiks
As usual, my mother-in-law has been busy knitting all year round in anticipation of a cold winter and I am duty-bound to share such delights… http://folio.me.uk/patiks/2011/11/december-2011/ A description of this hobby of hers can be found here: http://folio.me.uk/patiks/about/ Lest any of your gadget-hipsters think there is nothing here for you, here is proof that she [...]
Reflections on Qurbani
I have become rather passive of late. The practice of my deen has been confined pretty much to the performance of the five prayers; I don’t think I am in a very good place spiritually and my relationship with my Lord is strained by the sins I willfully pile upon others. All those passions that [...]
çok soğuk
Once again the biting cold dismantles another piece of my romantic vision of premodernity — those dreams of the self-sufficient homestead farm fed by spring waters and warmed by the wood burning stove that account for many a wasted moment of my youth. Here I sit in the kitchen before such a stove, warming myself [...]
