FirstFern
My blogs
| Location | Plane of Inner Peace |
|---|---|
| Introduction | "The most foreign country is within" |
| Interests | writing, walking, hiking, cooking, reading, swimming, snorkelling, travelling, jumping into rock pools, playing pool, cultural ethnography, forest tribal communities, radio, oral history |
| Favorite movies | Amina, Children of Heaven, Road to Sarajevo, Lord of the Rings, Children of Heaven, An Inconvenient Truth |
| Favorite books | * The Most Beautiful Names - Compiled by Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti * Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (about an American in Pakistan building schools in the mountains) * Islam The Natural Way - Abdul Hamid Wahid * Don't be Sad by 'Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarnee * Muhammad - Martin Lings * Return to the Spirit - Martin Lings (BOTH Totally recommended!!) * Conference of the Birds - Farid ud din Attar * The Malay Archipelago - Alfred Russel Wallace (1890) * Blink - Malcolm Gladwell * The Road less Travelled - M Scott Peck * The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin * Key to the Garden - Habib Ahmad Mashhur Al-Haddad * The Purification of the Soul - compiled works of Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, Ibn al-Qayam al-Jawzi & Abu Hamid al-Ghazali * Sunshine at Medina by Zakaria Bashier * Final Notes from a Great Island - Neil Humphreys * Sometimes the Soul - Gioia Timpanelli * The Sacred Balance - David Suzuki * Wisdom of the Elders - David Suzuki |