World Affairs And Beyond

The dust tasted and smelt like that in my village back in Nowshera ! :-)

Tried to capture how it looks from there, when you're watching the tire move across the water.   Oh I almost fell off.

After travelling for hours in serious dust, inhaling and almost eating it.

My heart dances to the songs that the Karakorum sings It hears the music that the Karakorum plays Would anything less than the Karakorum make my heart dance?

I came across a bunch of very athletic kids at the Hargisa stream in Baltistan. They were so excited to see me and talk to me for a long time about their water sports and the valley. They thought I was a foreigner, which for them, ofcourse I was. They spoke Shina language. One of them spoke English too. It was fun meeting these kids and watching them dive into the rocky stream. Wish I could do the same. :-)

My homeland, a new adventure everyday! Every morning you wake up, you hear breaking news! Could Pakistan be suffering at the hands of the talibans for hurting Afghanistan by supporting the Afghani Talibans in the past? Could this be a reaction to that? This morning I woke up, and accidentally switched on the TV to watch news after a long long time. I saw a news reporter standing in Sihala, Islamabad near an arms depot; site of some kind of a blast. Then another breaking news, a bomb blast killing 7 people in a market in Buttgram, Mansehra in the North of Pakistan. After some time, I saw a footage of shelling in Lahore probably on Ferozpur road. Then another breaking news of firing in Karachi, South of Pakistan. All this in a few hours and now I don't feel like taking my breakfast at all. So much for watching the television in the morning.

Do you think the only solution to rid this world of evil is to wipe the evil doers off this planet once and for all ? Sometimes I think that it is the only solution. Identify them first, know that they are evil, and then kick their butts. These are the kind of people who posses black evil hearts. They are upto nothing good in this world.

Today was the worst day of my life. Before I could explain myself, before I could say that we should try to rise above the cultural and sectarian differences that I often see, before I could finish my speech, I was believed to be trying to prove the opposite. I was branded a racist ! I think my close friends know me better but who cares? It really hurts ! :'(

I was recently approached by some young lad from some organization, trying to convince me that dialogue is no good and that America was bad. He added that I was not a good Muslim because even though he did not know me, yet he saw my photos in the US and concluded that I was not following the message of Mohammad (peace be upon him). It reminded me of a saying of the fourth caliph of Islam, Hazrat Ali (on whom be peace), "A person who finds only faults in others is like a housefly, who leaves the whole beautiful body of a person and just sits on his wounds".

The only solution for a twitching muscle a doctor once told me was, "smoking" ! In 2007 after a major surgery, when my muscles were reviving, they started twitching like hell. Muscle twitching can be due to several reasons. Not all muscle twitches are the same. It could be due to your diet, maybe you are not taking a proper diet, or due to some muscle weakness. There is usually no treatment necessary for benign muscle twitching. If your muscles twitch for a longer period of time; i.e., for days, and do not stop, then you must consult a doctor, and no do not smoke only to stop the twitching.

Save your only planet from war, hate and destruction. Unite for Peace !

As you go from the west toward the east around the world, you will travel some time into the future. I am about to head toward the east and when you start at night, you will find yourself chasing the night.

In Nashua, New Hampshire ! 

Karen M Goddard

Siraj and Sofia The most brilliant children I have met so far in New Hampshire. Siraj writes poetry and plays music, while Sofia loves to dance and is into many other creative activities. They are amazing children with a great sense of humor.

19 Garden Street / Milford / New Hampshire / 03055 It was amazing to see how well organized the Milford Police Department was.  Milford is located in the southern region of New Hampshire and is surrounded by the towns of Wilton, Lyndeborough, Mont Vernon, Amherst, and Hollis.  

IMEC is a non-profit, volunteer-based, organization whose mission is to provide doctors in developing countries with quality medical equipment to improve health care for the poor.

Arriving on the 21st of May, spending the 22nd of May in Chester at Victoria Inn, we left here on the 23rd of May. :-) Just a little goodbye moment recorded on my cell phone ! :-)

Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) an American poet born in San Francisco, California. The Robert Frost Farm is in Derry, New Hampshire, where he wrote many of his poems, including "Tree at My Window" and "Mending Wall." Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost 1923 Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. This is where Robert Frost used to sit and write !