These Weekly Tips are a reflective elaboration from my speech at the 2016 Muslim Women’s Literary Conference: “Just Let Me Bee: Finding Your Creative Niche” A couple of weeks ago, I called my insurance and said, “I need a therapist.” When we don’t take care of ourselves–when we can’t just bee–our mental and emotional state suffers.…
These Weekly Tips are a reflective elaboration from my speech at the 2016 Muslim Women’s Literary Conference: “Just Let Me Bee: Finding Your Creative Niche” I’m gonna do me. How about you? Be your diverse you that makes the world a better place because you’re in it. You help our world go around. You help us…
These Weekly Tips are a reflective elaboration from my speech at the 2016 Muslim Women’s Literary Conference: “Just Let Me Bee: Finding Your Creative Niche” Subhanallah. It’s amazing that as I rewrite these posts to you from my lecture, my life’s song plays on the same melody as the slide. Did it hurt you that I…
These Weekly Tips are a reflective elaboration from my speech at the 2016 Muslim Women’s Literary Conference: “Just Let Me Bee: Finding Your Creative Niche” Dance out of joy. Do a joy jot, as Anse Tamara would say! If you can’t physically dance, can you dance with your pen? your voice? your heart? The bee’s dance…
These Weekly Tips are a reflective elaboration from my speech at the 2016 Muslim Women’s Literary Conference: “Just Let Me Bee: Finding Your Creative Niche” The bee flies far away from her hive to pollinate the flowers. She’s a forager…a gleaner. She comes bringing the dawah; she doesn’t wait and say “bring the flower to me”. She…
These Weekly Tips are a reflective elaboration from my speech at the 2016 Muslim Women’s Literary Conference: “Just Let Me Bee: Finding Your Creative Niche” This week I’m taking it easy…easy like Sunday morning. I don’t think I’ve been very easy on myself lately. Because I’ve been sick about three times in the past 30 days.…
These Weekly Tips are a reflective elaboration from my speech at the 2016 Muslim Women’s Literary Conference: “Just Let Me Bee: Finding Your Creative Niche” The bee is a creative individual who is determined and does not give up. She is an artist. And she knows her place. What’s your place? What job can you do well, and…
These Weekly Tips are a reflective elaboration from my speech at the 2016 Muslim Women’s Literary Conference: “Just Let Me Bee: Finding Your Creative Niche” When the bee does a job, she does it fully. She also recognizes that she will have different jobs at different stages. What would happen if the bees didn’t do their…
These Weekly Tips are a reflective elaboration from my speech at the 2016 Muslim Women’s Literary Conference: “Just Let Me Bee: Finding Your Creative Niche” I really love Wednesdays. It means I must force myself to honor our agreement and post to you. But it doesn’t feel forced. It’s warranted…it’s wanted…writing is something I need to…
These Weekly Tips are a reflective elaboration from my speech at the 2016 Muslim Women’s Literary Conference: “Just Let Me Bee: Finding Your Creative Niche” Always, Beginning in the Name of The Creator, The Original It has been exactly one week since my boat was rocked here in this dunya. If I told you everything that…
These Weekly Tips are a reflective elaboration from my speech at the 2016 Muslim Women’s Literary Conference: “Just Let Me Bee: Finding Your Creative Niche” Happy Wednesday everybody! It’s the middle of the work week, so it’s time for another tip! The forager bee is a master of avoiding diseases of the heart. She only goes…
These Weekly Tips are from my speech at the 2016 Muslim Women’s Literary Conference: “Just Let Me Bee: Finding Your Creative Niche” Despite what we like to believe about ourselves, we aren’t born queens. Or kings. We must create our own narratives. We must nurture and raise queens just like the bees. The bees have an…
Today was a good day. But isn’t it always? It’s just our perception, perspective, and attitude about the day, during the day, that changes. A circle is a circle no matter where you stand in/on it. No matter your vantage point. Today, I saw the circle instead of imagined sharp edges. I felt some shame…
These Weekly Tips are from my speech at the 2016 Muslim Women’s Literary Conference: “Just Let Me Bee: Finding Your Creative Niche” What are you thankful for today? What are you celebrating? What are you harvesting? What is your life for? What are you here for? The worker bee is a female. The queen is…
“[…]A heart that does not contain the beautiful light of knowing Allah, like a bee without honey, becomes a hornet with a poisonous stinger, stinging whoever comes close by.” (Sh. Tosun Bayrak commenting on the Blessed Name “Al-Latif” in The Name and the Named, Fons Vitae, 2000, p. 92) Wow, has it been this long?…
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