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	<description>No one is promised tomorrow.</description>
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		<title>Charter for Compassion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2008, Karen Armstrong was selected as a TED Prize Winner. Her wish?
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		<title>On prayers answered</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was randomly clicking through my Facebook friends and stumbled across one who had excerpted a letter I&#8217;d written to God for my friend Sima to read aloud in Mecca during Hajj two years ago.
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		<title>All things green and beautiful</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[On Parenthood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Living in San Francisco is wonderful &#8211; fresh, local, seasonal produce; a city that cares enough to recycle and compost its waste; and beautiful people and weather year round. It&#8217;s so easy to be green here.
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		<title>The face of love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I called my sister in Islamabad and as soon as she heard my voice she started laughing. &#8220;I thought it might be you,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The kids were just talking about you.&#8221;
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		<title>Brass Crescents and Influential Muslims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The polls for the 6th annual Brass Crescent Awards are open till the 27th! The excellent blog Muslimah Media Watch received three well-deserved nominations. Their editor-in-chief Fatemeh Fakhraie, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow earlier this year, was also interviewed by elan today.
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		<title>The Becoming</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dear friend Rachel at Velveteen Rabbi has written a trio of extraordinary posts (1, 2, 3) on her pregnancy, for which I am grateful as she so beautifully articulates what I cannot.
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		<title>Thoughts on Parenthood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baraka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I slipped on the stairs yesterday around 11 am &#38; hurt my lower back. Initially I felt fine and the baby was be-bopping around so the nurse I called said not to worry, but to hydrate &#38; rest.
But later that evening, for six hours I felt almost no movement at all. I rubbed oil on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rickshawdiaries.wordpress.com&blog=1668016&post=2269&subd=rickshawdiaries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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