Few habits are as double-edged as reading. For some it’s illuminating as they answer questions or explore ideas, synthesizing and abandoning in their own terms. Others read but still resemble the chronic scroller who scrolls and learns nothing. This type should stop reading.
Hearing a musician, a singer, or a composer displaying an absolute mastery of scale and technique, a deep understanding of rhythm, is almost a glorification of God and the sounds He has filled the world with, and that he allows us to hear
To the respectful and introspective listener, a highly trained musician playing a song is like an athlete lifting an impossible boulder or a tailor stitching the best clothing. They are testaments to the abilities God has provided us humans with.
i spent the last two months travelling all over the US and some of canada and let me tell you there is nothing, NOTHING like a mixed beef and chicken shawarma on saj bread, no vegetables, only onions, toum, and a bit of hummus from lebanon express in roncesvalles
I try to come once a week to the barn and spend a few hours around the animals here. As a city person it brings a calming energy to my life like few other things do
The thing you have to realize about trads is that it’s all fake. Once a tradition is over it’s over. People in the 12th century weren’t trads it was just the lived reality. By trying to be trad you are already not being trad. The most trad thing you can do is just be normal.
Attended day 1 of University of Oxford "Paganism in Late Antique Arabia: Dead or Alive at the Rise of Islam?" Conference featuring Ahmad Al-Jallad and @shahanSean