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An Anthology of Ottoman Saints’ Lives
Devotion to Muhammad in Early Modern Islam
History 308B: A History of Islam and Islamic Societies, 1500 to the Present
Music of Islamicate Worlds: A Sampler

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Cahaba Lilies, Bibb County, Alabama

On June 14, 2011 By JonathanIn Nature, PhotosLeave a comment

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An Anthology of Ottoman Saints’ Lives
Devotion to Muhammad in Early Modern Islam
History 308B: A History of Islam and Islamic Societies, 1500 to the Present
Music of Islamicate Worlds: A Sampler

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We've been very, very busy these last several weeks, including excursions to nearby natural wonders, such as this lovely waterfall deep in Cloudland Canyon, which Cormac and Vera hiked down to and back up last week under their own power- and there are a lot of stairs involved! #cormacchannellallen #verawynneallen #cloudlandcanyon #cherokeefalls #georgianature

Upper Piney Falls, one of my favorite waterfalls since childhood, it was a real treat to get to share it with my kids- just as gorgeous and magical as I remembered it from many years ago! #pineyfallsstatenaturalarea #waterfalls #upperpineyfalls #tennesseenature

Starting out on new adventures the last few days, including a hike- probably the most strenuous the kids have done under their own power (well, mostly- Vera required carrying the last quarter mile or so...)- to Piney Falls, outside of Spring City, Tennessee; pictured here one of the rockhouses on the trail down. #pineyfallsstatenaturalarea #rockhouse #cormacchannellallen #verawynneallen

Examining what must surely be one of the best hollow trees this side of North America, a massive tulip poplar on the banks of Gunpowder Falls, its hollow large enough to accommodate two or three adults and/or several children, as pictured here! #hollowtree #gunpowderfallsstatepark #friends #tulippoplar

Cormac and Vera expertly climbing some very, very old rocks alongside Gunpowder Falls at Pot Rocks just north of Baltimore. #cormacchannellallen #verawynneallen #gunpowderfallsstatepark #geology #rivers

View of the bright colored cliffs of the late Miocene St. Mary's Formation along the Chesapeake Bay, from a fossil hunt last month on a very, very cold day. #stmarysformation #miocene #driftwoodbeach #geology #marylandnature

On Mercy

And what is the merciful heart? It is the heart’s burning for all of creation…

St. Isaac

On History

To study something of great age until one grows familiar with it and almost to live in its time, is not merely to satisfy a curiosity or to establish aimless truths: it is rather to fulfil a function whose appetite has always rendered History a necessity. By the recovery of the Past, stuff and being are added to us; our lives which, lived in the present only, are a film or surface, take on body—are lifted into one dimension more. The soul is fed… One may say that historical learning grants men glimpses of life completed and a whole; and such a vision should be the chief solace of whatever is mortal and cut off imperfectly from fulfilment.

— Hilaire Belloc, The Old Road, 1904

St. Moses the Ethiopian, Pray For Us!

On The State

The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; i.e., by people relating to one another differently. ... We, who have imprisoned ourselves in the absolute state, must realize the truth: we are the state! And we will be the state as long as we are nothing different; as long as we have not yet created the institutions.

Gustav Landauer

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