12/09/2012

Always Trying..and Always Staying At it....

I shared these  thoughts earlier with my students courtesy of Jonathan Luckwood Huie about the simple notion of not giving up and not giving in..about figuring out how to overcome obstacles and difficulties....the essence of living....

Onward to the new Work Week! :-)







The deer in the picture is standing on her hind legs to reach the apples in an apple tree….lessons to be learnt never to give up & never to give in…………


Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
                                                                                  Confucius                                                                                                                      

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan

To protect the revolution, overcome the false secular-Islamist divide - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

It has been a very interesting week.

I begin the new week by noting this very perceptive article I just finished in Al Jazeera on the State of Islam and how it is at such a historic juncture...just like all of Professor Dabashi's retrospectives, I have to at least read it three times to recognize how perceptive & important it is:


To protect the revolution, overcome the false secular-Islamist divide - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

12/04/2012

The Struggle For Iran: One Fearless Soul's Fight For Justice

Copy of the issued travel ban for Mehraveh Khandan. The 13 -year old daughter of imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotodeh. Nasrin Sotoudeh is protesting this unjustified charge by continuing her hunger strike in Evin prison.
Nasrin Soutoudeh, The Iranian Lawyer and Human Rights Activist, has been on a hunger strike to protest the travel ban issued by the Government of Iran against her daughter.   What has been uncovered above is the actual copy of the travel ban for  Mehraveh Khandan,  Ms Sotodeh's  13 -year old daughter.  
She's not forgotten, though.   Her plight was exemplifed by this beautiful rendition: