This Was A Really Good Blog Post. Places Are So Much More Than How They Voted In The Last Election.

The Baklava Dude

There is the joy of eating food, and there is the joy of gifting food.

Wrote this piece in a hurry for Vocal Media’s The Perfect Pair challenge. It got removed from the challenge a couple hours after being accepted as a story, but oh well. I wanted to write about one of my quirks that I picked up in college. 

Confessions

An Offering of Chili Mango

Virtue Signaling to my Superego via Acts of Kindness

New Vocal Media story! (despite the title I promise it has nothing to do with dried fruit) Submitted this to the Remarkably Real Challenge

Grist: 3 expert tips on how to spot bullshit. Very fitting for April Fool's Day

Maher Zain - Alhubbu Yasood | #Syria

ساعد الشعب السوري http://humanappeal.org.uk Buy it on iTunes. All proceeds go to Syria: http://bit.ly/15Y3zfE Official Music Video of the track :- الحب يسود ...

A bit reminiscent of Christian Rock. My heart goes out to the ongoing strife in Syria.

The pep talk i didnt know i needed. 🥺

Starting school at UW tomorrow! Go #Huskies

Snow Day at the University of Washington

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/udub/comments/ase9gg/my_friend_shot_a_music_video_on_campus_during_our/

tl;dr- this is 2 hours late

I don't know why I decided to wake up at 8 am yesterday morning, on a solid 4.5 hours of sleep, to help a bunch of tree huggers dig out blackberry plants and pass heavy buckets of mulch down a hillside park no one gives a rat's tail about anyway, only to find myself still up at 1:30am, frantically scribbling away at my homework that I had the entire weekend to do.

But there is one thing I do know. I know that yesterday was the day where we commemorate a man who changed the lives of millions as he fought tooth and nail to bring justice to an oppressed people, a man who accomplished more with peace and love than most could dream to do with guns, germs and steel, a man whose humility and altruism inspires nobodies like me to run out of my cozy dorm on a chilly Monday morning and help restore an urban forest park. Sure, it's not like uprooting a few invasive species or passing a few buckets of dirt is going to save the planet or anything. But if there's one thing the Reverend Martin Luther King, Junior has shown, it's that giving back is giving back, period, whether it's to your family or friends, community or country. Everything counts, no matter how insignificant, and even though I might never change the world like MLK did, that doesn't stop my from feeling an obligation to honor his memory by giving back, just as he did, with UW Earth Club, volunteering for Earth Core, on this sunny day in Seattle. For lack of something better to say, Happy MLK day everyone.

Getting the most out of 20 bucks- lunch, jazz music, and a picture with the school mascot!