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Saddleback Butte: Lonely Sunrises

Scrambling up a steep side of the Butte, I fumble for footing on the scree that made up the trail near the top of Saddleback Butte. The trail was simple enough until the summit came. The dark made it...

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I met a Muslim, now what?

People meet Muslims, they feel a bit intimidated because of the “elephant in the room.” How do you carry on a conversation if you don’t know what to talk about, feel constricted by self conscious...

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The Astonishing Miracles of The Antelope Valley

I have gone all over the West Coast and the US, interacted with all sorts of people and have been inspired by the places I have visited. I have travelled abroad, visiting places on my way to Pakistan,...

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Candid Photography Lesson at Muslim Day 2014

Its been a “May oven” this year. Usually we have “May Gray” followed by “June Gloom;” but this year we have dry hot desert winds blowing in from the east- Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico. These super...

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Rent-A-Kid Memorial Day Weekend 2014

Last weekend I was out at Muslim Day, the weather was not hiking friendly. This past weekend was Memorial Day, incredibly hot, and incredibly fitting for kicking off summer because we had family over...

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Portraits- Fake and Flattering

Chris Orwig suggests that while taking portraits a photographer should “Strive for honesty versus something that is flattering and fake.” My last experience with portraiture was at the Muslim Day...

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A Black and White Adventure- The Struggle is Real

The most amazing thing about photography is that in the most subtlest of ways you can take a picture, change it, and get something entirely new. I also haven’t gone out and about exploring the high...

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Adventures With The (Ramadan) Moon Sighting Committee

Every year we go into a period that I call “The Moon Wars”- its the perennial Muslim calendar event, a sort of “I can piss further then you can” showcase except it involves whether or not to use the...

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“Supermoon” Over California Badlands

I wanted to share tonights adventure, but I will post more later about the where and the what, as well as the how cool it was. Right now, I wanted to let the images of the astronomical event in the...

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The “Bear Flag Republic” Develops Young Leaders

The awesome thing about civic engagement is seeing young adults develop skills and then apply them to real life situations. Since 2005 I have had the opportunity to be part of an innovative program...

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Why I Decided Not to Vote

…By Mail No. I would not squander my vote like that. It’s actually the one responsibility I have as a citizen of this republic. Democracy is by the people, for the people, of the people; until those...

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Removing the Training Wheels on the New Hobby

I have been busy. Not the busy with life per se, but more so with certain hobbies. They eat up my time, so I haven’t been blogging as much. I think its time to start sharing again. We (the sibs and I)...

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On Reading Lists

Two years go I realized I was missing something in my life, my passion had been stunted by years of busy-bee-ness. So I made a get-back-to-this-passion-plan, it involves my brain and my eyes and hours...

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Help- My Shins Are Dying

I have been here before, but this time it seems like its much much worse then it was before. My shins, they feel like living death. I can’t explain the pain I feel in them, and its a pain that won’t go...

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On Red Books, and the Fear of Losing One’s Faith

  Books can be a dangerous thing. Its not all that uncommon for me to be told that I shouldn’t be reading X book, or to be asked “Why are you reading that?” in a manner that implies that I shouldn’t be...

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In the Conceptual Age… You Learn to Hack

I just finished reading The Silent Intelligence: The Internet of Things by Daniel Kellmereit  and Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World by Christopher Steiner, after having gone through...

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On “Wild,” the Pacific Crest Trail (In My Own Backyard!)

Cheryl Strayed’s book “Wild” is getting released this week as a movie starring Reese Witherspoon as Cheryl [1]. I read “Wild” when it came out, it was part of my 2012 one book a month goal. I found...

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Goodbye Nike+, Hello Jawbone UP + Strava- and the Future of Health Insurance...

I had a Nike+ Watch with Tom Tom GPS but it failed me. So I got a Jawbone UP bracelet to connect with my Strava account and give me the flexibility to include cycling as activity that gathers my...

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Open the door, and explore

Is it sad that the Disney channel has advertisements encouraging kids to turn the TV off this summer and get outside to explore, play, or just do outdoor activities? As an adult I’m guilty of being...

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My 2014 Book Picks

Goal was simple, 52 weeks in 1 year, 1 book for each week. At first I started by reading whatever book I felt like reading. Those largely involved fiction, and after a while I realized that escaping...

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