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Sufi Snaps: Unexpected (A photo)

 

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Sufi Snaps: Saturated (A photo and a story)

DREAM TRAP by Ali Hammad The sky was about saturated with nimbus, the lake with boats, and my head with thoughts. A fine summer morning it was. It was quiet. Quiet except the susurration of a morning breeze. The boats … Continue reading

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Sufi Snaps: Sea (A photo)

by Ali Hammad   Photo by Ali Hammad Written in response to WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge:Sea

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An Open Letter to the Name Chameleon

by Ali Hammad LETTER: TO THE ONE WHO REVELS IN NAMES Dear Name Chameleon, Here’s a question: To what purpose your myriad names—names that fuel feuds, battles, and wars; each name a group identity; each group suspicious of other groups; … Continue reading

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Sufi Snaps: Foreshadowing (A photo)

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Sufi Snaps: Masterpiece (A photo and a story)

by Ali Hammad THE GOLDEN CALF Let me introduce myself. But I will not tell you my name. If I gave you my name, I will need no introduction. I am a painter who is known for his realist aesthetic. … Continue reading

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A Sufi Snap (The Golden Hour) and a Sufi Thought for the Week

“We are indeed truly at sea with our only comfort being the basic fact that at least we are at sea together.” —Todd Essig, Ph.D., in a review of a book by Ken Eisold in Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 40, p.685, 2012. … Continue reading

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Sufi Snaps: Nostalgia (A photo and a story)

A PATH BLURRY — by Ali Hammad Let me say at the outset that I’m not a sentimentalist. And that is what makes this tale more incomprehensible. Years ago, on a cloudless day, the sky the color of a sun-washed … Continue reading

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Sufi Snaps: The World Through My Eyes (A photo and a poem)

by Ali Hammad DILEMMA OF A MODERN PERSON—2 Am I to leap and prance? Stay in a frozen stance? Move mountains with a glance? Dance a particle dance? Am I free or determined? Photo and poem by Ali Hammad Related: … Continue reading

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Sufi Snaps: 21st Century Citizen (A photo and a poem)

by Ali Hammad DILEMMA OF A MODERN PERSON Uncertainty a certainty, particle is a wave-quantum; now you know my position, can you tell my momentum? Am I dead or alive or a Schrödinger cat? Photograph and poem by Ali Hammad

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