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Many Rivers, One Sea

9 November 2014

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One day as I returned from lunch through our lobby, a spacious area bathed in Silicon Valley sunlight, three men wearing the blue lab smocks of engineers jumped up from their seats and tackled me with a chorus of questions. Erfan, a Syrian with a trimmed, graying beard, said, “Mariam, we were just arguing about […]

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Cardamom Air Freshner

4 December 2011

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Threw a party at my home and went about cleaning up the next day.  Pulled out my new Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner and started with the living room carpet.  I moved the red machine back and forth and watched it pick up something or the other. It roared and whistled along. Suddenly, the whole living room filled with […]

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Art In The Park

17 May 2010

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Art In The Park

Attended the Los Altos Rotary Art Show this Sunday. Always a wonderful feeling meeting artists, seeing their creativity, and chatting with them about how and what they do. It soothes the soul. One artist I met only works with colored pencils. Her drawings are as close to real life as it gets. I couldn’t stop […]

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