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​In the winter of my twenty-fourth year, I was a ghost haunting my own life in Lowell, Massachusetts. I was caught in the repetitive, grinding gears of addiction—a cycle that felt less like a choice and more like a gravity I couldn’t escape. The gray slush of the Merrimack Valley mirrored the state of my soul: cold, blurred, and sinking. I be...


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“But ask the animals, and they will teach you;
or the birds of the air, and they will tell you…
In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.”
— Job 12:7–10

“Be praised, my Lord, through all Your creatures.”
— St. Francis...


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I had never visited a mosque before,
was a novice faith reporter, there
to observe the prayers, the meal.

It was an evening during Ramadan.
I sat with my wife in the lobby,
feeling lost like the parable sheep.

As we took off our winter coats,
a woman noticed the visiting strangers,
offered us head scarves she had in her c...


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The first time I smelled ruda, I pulled back.

It’s sharp, commanding scent filled the room as my grandmother brushed the plant over a neighbor’s forehead. I didn’t know why she was doing it, only that the air felt charged; as if something unseen was listening. No one explained what was happening. They didn’t need to. The...


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