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Category: Nadia Hashimi

It’s time to undo Rahim.

arranged-marriage, boy, gender, gender-roles, girl, parenting, rahima, transgender

Every promise we kept, every squeeze of the hand, every secretive smile we exchanged, every crying child we comforted- every one of those moments narrowed the distance between us.

Some would call that lucky but lucky is relative

Can a mother commit a greater sin than ignoring her intuitions?

f, fa, intuition, mother-s-intuition

Yes, well, people are very good at destroying things, good things.

The elderly become invisible sooner than we would hope.

Cornered mothers pray for strange things.

That’s what being a mother is, isn’t it? Waiting for a rounded belly to tighten in readiness; listening for the sound of hunger in the moonlit hours; hearing an eager voice call even in the camouflage of traffic, loud music, and whirring machines. It’s looking at every door, every phone, and every approaching silhouette and feeling that slight lift, that tickle of opportunity to be again—mother.

f, fa, mother, mothers, waiting

Fiction, if done right, can bridge cultural divides. Stories can be a footpath for a reader to step into another land and view its indigenous practices and beliefs through a local lens, instead of a telescope.

cultural-differences, psychology-today, storytelling

What is gone is gone and will not come back. When the earth swallows, it swallows forever and we are left to stumble along feeling the absences. These are our burdens.

burden, burying, death, f, fa, loss

As children inch their way into adolescence, the parent changes. He is an authority, a source of answers, and a chastising voice. Depending on the day, he may be resented, emulated, questioned, or defied.Only as an adult can a child imagine his parent as a whole person, as a husband, a brother, or a son. Only then can a child see how his parent fits into the world beyond four walls. Saleem had only bits and pieces of his father, mostly the memories of a young boy. He would spend the rest of his life, he knew, trying to reconstruct his father with the scraps he could recall or gather from his mother.

adolescence, f, fa, growth, loss, parents, parents-and-children

An entire lifetime can change in one afternoon. The rest of the world can continue on, unaware of a quiet, solitary cataclysm occurring a few feet away.