safiyyas-senses.blogspot.com

ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com

a life in the day of -: March 2010

http://ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html

A life in the day of -. Saturday, March 13, 2010. Guess who just rediscovered her blog? Links to this post. You know it's there. Just a-stalking every person. But we'll just pretend alright? Links to this post. Friday, March 12, 2010. A disjointed post to re-activate my blog brain and to stop my mind from going down a path of pure empiricism. What does writing do for me? It pushes thoughts out in a format that isn't lazy. Seeing thoughts in concrete lettering makes me scoff at the gaping holes in them.

ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com

a life in the day of -: When Starvation was sexy and other woes in times of excess

http://ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com/2011/07/when-starvation-was-sexy-and-other-woes.html

A life in the day of -. Wednesday, July 13, 2011. When Starvation was sexy and other woes in times of excess. Why am I spitting such venom when media coverage and a deliberate focus on the situation is sure to rake in some of the money that’s needed by relief agencies? Maybe it’s because I feel like Africa is being used - again. To give the first-world ‘a cause’ , a chance to polish our rusty consciences, for a while … until we ‘drop it like it’s hot.’. To outline immediate solutions would be to try and ...

ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com

a life in the day of -: Archives: Strike Three - Personal Perspectives (20 August 2010)

http://ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com/2011/06/archives-strike-three-personal.html

A life in the day of -. Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Archives: Strike Three - Personal Perspectives (20 August 2010). We're in the midst of the second large scale Public Service strike that I can remember. Pundits say that it's the third since 1997. Things are really heating up down on the ground. I come to work, bypassing groups singing, “ my father was a garden boy, my mother was a kitchen girl, that's why I'm a socialist, I'm a socialist .”. We are experiencing an exodus of skills to private hospitals and...

ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com

a life in the day of -: March 2009

http://ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html

A life in the day of -. Thursday, March 26, 2009. Links to this post. Saturday, March 21, 2009. How does art traverse the canvas and settle the soul? How is it that magnificent strokes evoke a yearning. To access the eternal? I drown in serenity. I awaken to reality. Links to this post. Friday, March 13, 2009. Romance off the coast of Africa. Whoever wrote that previous blog post about Africa lacking authenticity obviously hadn't been to Zanzibar yet. Links to this post. Thursday, March 12, 2009. Identit...

ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com

a life in the day of -: July 2010

http://ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html

A life in the day of -. Sunday, July 18, 2010. Links to this post. A visit to the the Graveyard. Do you visit the qabaristaan often? It was strange that there was a type of serenity that permeated the place. I was humbled to see so many young people visiting. I also marvelled at the anonymous souls who take the effort to keep the graves in order. The guys that maintain mosques, upkeep the JK's, organise the ghusal's and tend the graves - small kindnesses, yet ample consciousness. Links to this post.

ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com

a life in the day of -: May 2008

http://ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html

A life in the day of -. Sunday, May 18, 2008. To sleep . during a paediatrics call. I sit awake , no choice of mine. The moans of labour not far behind. The seductive promise of sleep. I see newborns , but I'm not brooding. I'll give a leg. ok maybe a toe,. For a warm water bottle, a blanket to throw,. Over my cold self, my husband nearby. On second thought. I'll give a thigh. I wait to be called,. Perhaps an emergency . I write such nonsense. I've got to go. Links to this post. Links to this post. A qua...

ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com

a life in the day of -: Archive: Selling Pipe Dreams to the Poor (14/sept/2010)

http://ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com/2011/06/archive-selling-pipe-dreams-to-poor.html

A life in the day of -. Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Archive: Selling Pipe Dreams to the Poor (14/sept/2010). As I drove in to work last night I was listening to a news report about fifty shacks burning down in an informal settlement somewhere in Johannesburg. I fleetingly wondered about who would be providing relief to these people. By the pipelines," she repeated about four times before I finally understood what she was saying. You mean by the pipelines, on the streets? Yes," she replied. The problem with ...

ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com

a life in the day of -: November 2008

http://ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html

A life in the day of -. Sunday, November 30, 2008. Tell it to the wind. Talk to me of gardens with companions pure. Sing to me through colours unpaletted onto. A canvas of a scene as vivid as a post-rainfall picture. Laugh with me through melodies melting into. Don't tell me in your half anaesthetised state. Of the father that you cannot find,. I cannot resurrect your mother. Don't ask me for more drugs. To dry up your tears and. Let's revel in the contradiction of the African sunshine. And leave me be.

ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com

a life in the day of -: September 2008

http://ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.html

A life in the day of -. Tuesday, September 30, 2008. Unite, Proclaim and Reclaim. Sitting in on a Jummah. Talk last week , I reflected on how apparently disjointed the talk seemed. It was coherent within itself, as an isolated lecture. However as a message to the congregation , it would not take us forward together. It did not build on what we had learned the week before , neither was it going to shape our collective actions for the week to come. A reflection of the ' ummah. The other and independently.

ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com

a life in the day of -: Tired

http://ayesha-a-life-in-the-day-of.blogspot.com/2011/06/tired.html

A life in the day of -. Friday, June 24, 2011. I want to write something about good company, settled souls, settling souls, people who have drive without vaulting ambition. A post about sanctity of true scripture and resonance of true scholars. About the piercing nature of language that makes your heart nod in recognition. I want to talk about 'home' and the concepts around it, but I'm tired and feel like I will write sentimentally because I have a tendency to 'gush'. To be continued. or not).