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	<title>Faisal's Weekend Blog</title>
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	<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:12:48 -0500</pubDate>

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            <title> Life in the Balance </title>
            <link> http://blogs.faisalhoque.com/weblogpub/faisal_hoque_1185431298/2010/6/2010_6_life_in_the_balance.html </link>
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This particular Memorial Day weekend, far away from home, I found myself standing next to my comatose mother in a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh struggling for her life.  

It is in the overcrowded and struggling streets of Dhaka, where she taught me to deal with life’s adversity as she took me to school every day riding on rickshaws.... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:55:38 -0500 </pubDate>
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            <title> Life’s Detour and the Art of Zen </title>
            <link> http://blogs.faisalhoque.com/weblogpub/faisal_hoque_1185431298/2010/2/2010_2_life_s_detour_and_the_art_of_zen.html </link>
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   “Courage is the quality most essential to understand the language of the world.”    

								- Paulo Coelho

It was a cold brisk Friday in Copenhagen.  I decided to take a little detour…to visit a dear old friend in the Swedish village of Lagan…

I met her some twenty plus years ago in Minnesota in the midst of another winter.... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:31:40 -0500 </pubDate>
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            <title> ‘A Lesson Well Worth Savoring’ </title>
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After a long week, on Friday night I was laying down in bed with my eyes closed.  As my wife does quite often, at one point she started reading out loud an article from this week’s Newsweek magazine.   For nearly twenty years, she has always managed to find exactly the right inspiration for me whenever I run out of fuel. 

This particular... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:15:13 -0500 </pubDate>
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            <title> Corridors of Carbondale </title>
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   ‘Hey, don’t let anyone tell you, you can’t do something. Not even me, alright?  You got a dream, you got to protect it!  People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you can’t do it.  You want something, go get it.  Period!’    

                - From the movie    Pursuit of Happyness    

Twenty-three years ago, it was... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:30:44 -0500 </pubDate>
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            <title> A Night At The Hakuba Village </title>
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   My Dear Little Angel    , 

A couple of months ago, while watching    Star Wars     together for the very first time, you asked me – “Baba, how do you know who is good and who is evil?”.    

Since then, I have been pondering your simple question...
 While gazing upon Camelback Mountain in Arizona, while traveling through the French... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:00:58 -0500 </pubDate>
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            <title> Paulo Coelho’s Prayer </title>
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Last night, once again I was reading ‘   Like the Flowing River    ’ by Paulo Coelho.  It is a collection of the author’s reflections and short stories, written from 1998 to 2005.  The jacket of the book describes ‘These are the powerful tales of living and dying, of destiny and choices, of love lost and found.  It explores what it means... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:41:51 -0500 </pubDate>
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            <title> Living With Courage </title>
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I was merely a child in March, 1971.  It was a year when more than three million people were killed in my birthland Bangladesh at the hands of the Pakistani army.  

As the website                                                                 genocidebangladesh.org     puts it: 

“The mass killings in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) in 1971... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:20:24 -0500 </pubDate>
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            <title> Henro - The Traveling Monk </title>
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   "The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one's inclinations. I am not as strong as I might be, but I have long known and practiced patience. And if my descendants wish to be as I am, they must study patience."     - Toshogu

The Dalai Lama says that an advanced stage... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:47:57 -0500 </pubDate>
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            <title> Where art thou our Authentic Swing? </title>
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It was a bright sunny September morning last Saturday in San Francisco.  I was there for a CFO conference.  We (my friend and colleague) were walking around China Town.  San Francisco’s China Town is a colorful and culturally diverse community.  This particular weekend they were hosting the ‘Autumn Moon Festival’.  If nothing else, this was... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:31:33 -0500 </pubDate>
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            <title> Chance Encounters </title>
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We all have stories.  In life’s journey there are many encounters.  Some are planned; some are by accident; and some by divine intervention.

In my case, I have been fortunate enough to have many encounters that can only be from ‘divine intervention’.  

I left home at 17 on March 16th in the mid 80’s.  Although, there is nothing unusual... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:30:41 -0500 </pubDate>
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