by Taslim Jaffer | Feb 10, 2015 | Art
As I mentioned last week, Christmas feels like ages ago, and Summer…dare we even dream of it yet? We’re in this time of in-between where we can anticipate longer, brighter days. But what about now? What about this moment? Do we waste this post-Christmas,...
by Taslim Jaffer | Feb 5, 2015 | Giving Back
Hello hello! Welcome to this week’s edition of #3ThingsThursday, the first one of February! Ah, February. The month of ‘in-between’; we’re moving toward Spring, but not quite out of Winter. Christmas feels like a distant memory, but Summer too...
by Taslim Jaffer | Feb 4, 2015 | Giving Back, Motherhood
Upstairs, in bed, in the wee hours of this morning, my son was transformed. Under some sort of cosmic magic, the earth went ’round the sun one more time. And by the same magic, my son turned 5. The day he was born I said to my husband, “I now know why son...
by Taslim Jaffer | Feb 3, 2015 | Self Love
There’s enough love to go around. You know it, I know it. And, if we’re lucky, we feel it often. We find love in our: partners, children, family, and friends. We get warm ‘hellos’ and genuine compassion from other people in our lives, too....
by Taslim Jaffer | Jan 20, 2015 | Life Lessons
One of my greatest heroes is Martin Luther King, Jr. The man was an outstanding human being – so connected to his purpose and staunch in his faith. I first started reading about the Civil Rights Movement when I was in high school and since then he has been my...
by Taslim Jaffer | Jan 12, 2015 | Life Lessons
It can be comfortable being stuck in one perspective. Believing something to be exactly as I see it, affirming that belief by filtering everything through one lens and having the outcome be exactly as I predicted – it can masquerade as security. Being closed in...
