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Don't Leave Me Raw
A woman was standing over a fire, having poured a handful of dry, hardened chickpeas into water. As the water warmed up to the point of...
Praise Song for Wide Open Space
Wide open spaces fill my heart with a sense of awe. It can be a plain, a desert, a view from a mountaintop, a vista. Somehow wide open...
How Is Your Heart Doing?
In many Muslim cultures, when you want to ask them how they’re doing, you ask: in Arabic, Kayf haal-ik? or, in Persian, Haal-e...