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Day 11: Cars!
30 Gratitudes 7/30/12 30 Gratitudes 7/30/12

Day 11: Cars!

Guest blogger: ZaydI am grateful for cars, because without them what could we do. Barely anything. We couldn’t go to work, we couldn’t go far distances

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Day 10:  Every five seconds…
30 Gratitudes 7/29/12 30 Gratitudes 7/29/12

Day 10: Every five seconds…

Sixteen hours without food certainly makes you think. But I still can’t imagine what it must feel like for people to go without food day after day after day

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Day 9: BFF
30 Gratitudes 7/28/12 30 Gratitudes 7/28/12

Day 9: BFF

On Saturday morning at 3:45am my friend Rebecca pulled up in her red Coexist-bumpered Camry. She wanted to try a day of fasting and was coming for suhoor

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Day 8:  Over the Rainbow
30 Gratitudes 7/27/12 30 Gratitudes 7/27/12

Day 8: Over the Rainbow

On Fridays during Ramadan, we break fast with a group of wonderful families, each bringing a dish to share, resulting in a profusion of kebabs, curries and khajoors

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Day 7:  Making Every Drop Count
30 Gratitudes 7/26/12 30 Gratitudes 7/26/12

Day 7: Making Every Drop Count

My typical morning routine usually starts with a glass of water. These days I reach for it automatically, only to catch myself. A friend posted on Facebook how

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Day 6:  Heaven Lies Beneath Their Feet
30 Gratitudes 7/25/12 30 Gratitudes 7/25/12

Day 6: Heaven Lies Beneath Their Feet

I am grateful for the mothers in my life – my mom, and my mother-in-law, and my khalas, who love me like a daughter, and all the other mothers in my family, young and old,

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Day 5: Luna LOVE-good
30 Gratitudes 7/24/12 30 Gratitudes 7/24/12

Day 5: Luna LOVE-good

Guest blogger: ZaydI am grateful for Luna, our mini golden doodle, because she is the cutest most playful animal on the planet. I love everything about her

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Day 4: We are FAMILY
30 Gratitudes 7/23/12 30 Gratitudes 7/23/12

Day 4: We are FAMILY

Guest blogger: SaanyaFamily: it may be a cliché thing to be grateful for, but it’s also a pretty simple thing to take for granted. I have an amazing immediate family

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Day 3: Mighty Woman with a Torch
30 Gratitudes 7/22/12 30 Gratitudes 7/22/12

Day 3: Mighty Woman with a Torch

We traveled to NY/NJ this weekend to show Saanya’s visiting host-sister from Spain a glimpse of the Big Apple and to try to convince my parents to drive back to DC with us for Ramadan.

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Day 2:  Be well, be strong, be healthy
30 Gratitudes 7/21/12 30 Gratitudes 7/21/12

Day 2: Be well, be strong, be healthy

My doctor called me this week and said, “I’ve got good news, and bad news.” Not exactly the words you want to hear from a doctor. “It’s not malignant,” she continued.

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Day 1:  But for the Grace of God
30 Gratitudes 7/20/12 30 Gratitudes 7/20/12

Day 1: But for the Grace of God

On the first day of this blessed month, we all woke up to a tragedy beyond belief. Twelve people dead and dozens wounded in an act of terror that has terrorized our conscience and our country.

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